Go Dev Diaries: How an Empty JSON Broke My Workflow

An Important Context I recently contributed to an open source tool called AutoCommit1. The tool solved a problem I had considered solving myself. AutoCommit leverages AI to generate descriptive conventional commit messages based on the input git diff2. Pretty neat and handy for those times when you struggle to come up with commit messages for code changes you made. It is also going to be super helpful with collaborations. So, instead of jumping straight to possibly reinventing the wheel, I decided to see if AutoCommit could just work out of the box. And it would have, if it didn’t attempt to force money out of my already sparse wallet. ...

May 7, 2025 · 9 min · Abdulmumin