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overgard 3 hours ago

I don't see this taking off. LLM's produce absolute novels worth of verbose text; and nobody wants to read someone else's conversation with it, and certainly nobody wants to read a multi-year old session log that's 20,000 words long. Also, this is what commit messages are supposed to solve! And the only reason anyone looks at logs are to see what's going wrong, and usually a bisect is easier for finding bad commits rather than doing a deep dive into the specifics.

In the interest of not just being a hater and suggesting an alternative though: if you're implementing a feature (whether yourself or with the agent) have the agent write a spec for the feature and commit THAT. Now you have a nicely organized thing that AI's or people can consume which captures all the intent of the session log with much less noise.

RugnirViking 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I tend to find that such specs as committed to git best take the form of commit messages. And then a summary, in the pull request. We also did this in the before-time.

For what its worth, agents are very capable of navigating these. I highly recommend asking an ai to go do the same thing your colleague did half a year ago for this new context, or whatever.