Kenton Varda declares a moratorium on AI-written PR and commit descriptions

Simon Willison's Blog·medium signal

Kenton Varda (Cloudflare) declared a moratorium on AI-written change descriptions — PR/commit messages, issues, and tickets — after finding AI-generated descriptions were 'worse than useless,' padding real signal with plausible filler that reviewers still have to wade through. Simon Willison amplified the quote, adding to a growing practitioner backlash against low-effort LLM text in engineering workflows.