I used to be a big admirer of Matt and Automattic, but after this whole WP Engine episode I've lost respect. I shut down my old wordpress blog, still working on importing the posts as org-mode files onto my new site, I no longer recommend WP to non-techies that ask me how to build a website.
I hope WordPress (and Automattic) turn the ship around but its not looking good at this point.
Also, a lot of commits are save point in nature (like if they will be squashed or rebased before merge/push), and the alternative for me is to name them "progress dump" or something because I don't want to look at the diff of an arbitrary commit just to come up with a sensible message.
Though for that I use the AI git message button in Cursor these days. But you don't need to be a noob vibe coder to find it useful.
The haters all have github repos where they've resorted to low quality commit messages at least from time to time.
reply