Since Anthropic launched we've been using it at a lot. It's the best programming agent I've seen so far: it gives concise answers, it can run shell tools a...
The only part of this process I’d consider automating with a LLM is summarizing the changes, and even then I’d only be interested looking at a suggested changelog, not something fully automated.
It’s amazing to me how far people will go to avoid writing a simple script. Thankfully determinism isn’t a requirement for a release pipeline. You wouldn’t want all of your releases to go smoothly. That would be no fun.
The only part of this process I’d consider automating with a LLM is summarizing the changes, and even then I’d only be interested looking at a suggested changelog, not something fully automated.
It’s amazing to me how far people will go to avoid writing a simple script. Thankfully determinism isn’t a requirement for a release pipeline. You wouldn’t want all of your releases to go smoothly. That would be no fun.
I agree. The right way to integrate AI into this process is to pre-fill the “release notes” box with an AI suggestion, that you then edit.