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Generating release changelogs from git history with GPT
Turn a noisy git log into a customer-readable changelog without writing it twice.
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What this lesson covers
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2changelog automation
- 3commit hygiene
- 4release notes
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Section 1
The premise
LLMs are great at compressing 200 commits into the 8 things customers actually need to know.
What AI does well here
- Cluster commits by feature area
- Translate engineer-speak into customer-facing sentences
What AI cannot do
- Decide what is too sensitive to ship in public notes
- Know which fix matters to your top customer
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