AI-written PR descriptions beat human ones — when you give it a template
reach_vb · x · 2026-09-10
After a viral post urged people to "write your own PR descriptions" amid AI slop, reachvb pushed back: he maintains per-project instructions specifying PR description elements like evals, side-by-side comparisons, and performance metrics — and argues the structured AI output is objectively better than human gibberish. The debate highlights that AI writing fails in generic communication but excels in templated engineering contexts.
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