The oxford comma debate is so annoying because it clearly has nothing but advantages. Removing commas from a delimited list does nothing to resolve ambiguity, whether lexicographically or syntactically.
It's so useful as a delimiter and anti-ambiguity machine, that you don't even need spaces for it to work! See CSV or Japanese.
I have found AI great in alot of scenarios but If I have a specific workflow, then the answer is specific and the ai will get it wrong 100% of the time. You have a great point here.
A trivial example is your happy path git workflow. I want:
- pull main
- make new branch in user/feature format
- Commit, always sign with my ssh key
- push
- open pr
but it always will
- not sign commits
- not pull main
- not know to rebase if changes are in flight
- make a million unnecessary commits
- not squash when making a million unnecessary commits
- have no guardrails when pushing to main (oops!)
- add too many comments
- commit message too long
- spam the pr comment with hallucinated test plans
- incorrectly attribute itself as coauthor in some gorilla marketing effort (fixable with config, but whyyyyyy -- also this isn't just annoying, it breaks compliance in alot of places and fundamentally misunderstands the whole point of authorship, which is copyright --- and AIs can't own copyright )
- not make DCO compliant commits
...
Commit spam is particularly bad for bisect bug hunting and ref performance issues at scale. Sure I can enforce Squash and Merge on my repo but why am I relying on that if the AI is so smart?
All of these things are fixed with aliases / magit / cli usage, using the thing the way we have always done it.
This was a fun thing to realize in my early days of programming in Delphi. I guess the author will soon realize why old systems name things ticket "00001" and so on.