Simon Willison suggests hiding AI PR descriptions behind details summary
Original title: Hide your slop PR descriptions behind <details><summary>
AI agents like Claude Code generate overly detailed PR descriptions that read like slop, prompting the use of HTML details tags to hide them.
Simon Willison observes that PRs from coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex include comprehensive descriptions of problems, solutions, and verification steps. These detailed documents are hard to absorb and resemble slop despite being accurate. The post suggests using the <details><summary> HTML element to hide the content.
- AI-written PR descriptions are too verbose and comprehensive
- Suggestion to use <details> tags for AI slop
- Organizations
- Simon Willison
From the original article
Most of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished result. Today's coding agents are great at writing PR descriptions.
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