Opinion: Meaningful Git Commit Practices Are Fading in the Age of AI Coding

A developer on DEV Community argues that thoughtful Git commit habits are disappearing, with large pull requests of thousands of lines now routinely submitted as a single commit. Where small, incremental commits once allowed teams to trace a project's reasoning and isolate bugs precisely, today's commits often bundle days of work under vague messages like 'add dashboard.' The author notes this makes tools like git blame and git bisect far less useful, since reverting a change now means discarding an entire feature rather than a specific fix. While AI-assisted coding is identified as a contributing factor — making it easier to generate large code blocks quickly — the author argues developers are choosing not to adapt their commit discipline in response. The piece calls this a cultural shift rather than a technical one, warning that the historical narrative a well-maintained Git log once provided is largely being lost.