Developer view: Treat commit messages as thinking tools; in the AI coding era one should still write commit descriptions by hand

Author yedhukrishnan argues that in the agentic coding era, commit messages and descriptions should be written by the developer themselves rather than handed to the Agent. The reason is that AI lacks the 'why' scattered across communication tools or offline context, and will fabricate reasoning; even if context is supplemented, only the author themselves can verify whether the code matches the description. Writing the description by hand allows reflecting on the AI's changes, writing out temporary decisions with exit conditions; if one cannot write out the 'why', it means they do not yet understand the code to be committed.