diff --git a/aider/watch.py b/aider/watch.py
index 733d0675e..457ecc785 100644
--- a/aider/watch.py
+++ b/aider/watch.py
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ from watchfiles import watch
 
 from aider.dump import dump  # noqa
 
-#ai turn off verbose!
-VERBOSE = True
+VERBOSE = False
 
 
 def is_source_file(path: Path) -> bool: