I liked this advice when humans wrote code. Though even then I'd urge people to write meaningful commit messages that capture the "why" of what they did, so no one tramples their intent by mistake.
But not sure it works in an age where most code is LLM-generated. Especially if that code is not even reviewed by humans (irresponsible or not, it's happening), and commit messages are also generated by AI. I think something is needed to separate "what did the human operator intend" from what the agent went and built.
I do agree that this gets way overengineered. My approach has been more or less what you stopped doing though - committing all our timestamped "plan/implementation docs" and "investigation docs" that document what the user wanted + empirical findings, and making all prior session transcripts searchable. It's seemed mostly helpful? For whatever reason I haven't run into many staleness problems so far.
I liked this advice when humans wrote code. Though even then I'd urge people to write meaningful commit messages that capture the "why" of what they did, so no one tramples their intent by mistake.
But not sure it works in an age where most code is LLM-generated. Especially if that code is not even reviewed by humans (irresponsible or not, it's happening), and commit messages are also generated by AI. I think something is needed to separate "what did the human operator intend" from what the agent went and built.
I do agree that this gets way overengineered. My approach has been more or less what you stopped doing though - committing all our timestamped "plan/implementation docs" and "investigation docs" that document what the user wanted + empirical findings, and making all prior session transcripts searchable. It's seemed mostly helpful? For whatever reason I haven't run into many staleness problems so far.