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Stop Pushing AI Generated Code to Git

https://blog.tombert.com/Posts/Technical/2026/04-April/Stop-Pushing-AI-Generated-Code-to-Git

by tombert • 4 months ago

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MattGaiser• 4 months ago

You wouldn’t commit a binary.

If a binary was as expensive to generate as some AI projects, I suspect that we would. We do not commit a binary because a binary is cheap to produce locally.

Maybe we get to the point where a conversation can reasonably be used to reproduce software, but that is way too costly at the moment.

tombert• 4 months ago

Even if that were the case, then it shouldn’t be in Git. It’s a build artifact.

You of course don’t have to do CI to generate on every push. You could just emit it manually and push the code to S3 or something.

I feel like the semantics of Git and GitHub are about demonstrating changes from human effort, and by pushing millions of AI generated code is breaking that.

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