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Discussion on: What if your apps get rebuilt, only from reading the commit messages?

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Jan Küster

Also question is, where concise commit messages are really important (and not just a formality): CI/CD? Onboarding? Revision/Audits? Refactoring?

The idea behind the thought experiment is to me that, if we have enough context and a hypothetical ai that can perfectly transform such context it should be able to recreate the code from the commit messages (a little bit like with event sourcing).

However the gap between this and reality is that we don't even know when commit messages are relevant and what/how much context is relevant.

Maybe this leads to a few creative ideas in the process.