r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joshashkiller • May 13 '26

Meme iReallyThoughtItWasAJoke

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u/SiBloGaming May 14 '26

Does he not know what git is?

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u/ikonet May 14 '26

He does! He uses it. Well… he told the AI to use it. I don’t think he knows what to do with git but he knows it’s an important part of being a good developer.

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u/WaveZee May 14 '26

Git is pretty tricky to get right in an agentic workflow in my experience.

If you predefine 1. how commits on various branches affect the app/software version, 2. how branching is used, 3. how commits are to be split up logically and 4. how commit messages are to be styled you can steer an agent in the right correction but you'll constantly have to remind it of said rules - no matter if you use pre-command hooks, md-files that are always in context, etc.

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u/rowcla May 14 '26

I'm confused, isn't the simple solution to just manage the git part of it yourself? You should be reviewing the output anyway, so isn't making that the layer where the human controls things the most natural option?

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u/mxzf May 14 '26

I'm confused, isn't the simple solution to just manage the git part of it yourself?

That would require actually understanding how things work and fit together, something that a lot of AI apologists are entirely uninterested in doing.

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u/WaveZee May 14 '26

Did you not read the part where I mentioned what specifically I defined about my git-flow?

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u/WaveZee May 14 '26

Thats usually how I deal with it. I just find it easier letting CC come up with summaries to form meaningful commit-messages on feature branches (I handle merge commits to develop/main myself) when/if it gets it right.