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You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Jul 10, 2026
After 27 years of writing code, I have stopped spending time on a long list of small but painful engineering tasks. AI agents now handle commit messages, pull request descriptions, code comments, naming conventions, Git hygiene, issue tracking, and release workflows with more consistency than most teams ever managed by hand.
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