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If code is cheap, intent is the currency

4 points| zknill | 4 days ago |zknill.io

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pu_pe|4 days ago

I don't know, I think intent has also become cheaper. Agents have intent, and can summarize intent from the changes pretty easily (as demonstrated by this skill).

In my experience Claude Code already does a pretty good job of including relevant context in the PR, although it's true that for commits it usually defaults to "this and this changed".

zknill|4 days ago

Yeah for sure, the skill leans on the agent being able to identify the intent. I'd say roughly 30% of the time I have to either prompt it to fix the intent, or it will ask me explicitly what the intent is.

Without the skill, the commit messages are often a list of files changed with a list of bullet points at the end saying:

- Added 8 tests to file.xyz

Pretty useless for a reviewer, they can see that from the diff.