Mastodawn

I love and use AI heavily, but recognize and respect the human touch points. One of the things I'm proud of is that our release notes for Ghostty are still lovingly created by hand by our maintainer team. We spent over 16 hours preparing them. I hope you liked them. ❤️

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Jesse Cooke Mar 9

@mitchellh we appreciate the effort!

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Orpheus Mar 9

@mitchellh So far I've found LLM generated release notes are about as good as just posting the raw changelog: the LLMs don't understand the context of a new feature or fixed bug and tend to emphasize everything equally, making it subtly more difficult to parse release notes.

I used to like reading the release notes of projects I don't actively use but planned on some day, since I could quickly scan for that needed feature or bugfix being added, but now they all read the same and blur together in an endless slog of of Bullet point header -> excited description.

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Sav Tripodi Mar 10

@mitchellh I’ve followed how you are using AI and read your blog post on your progression with it (thanks for sharing publicly). I must say, it’s not like the status quo at all. I think a lot of dev angst against it is the “vibers” committing code they don’t understand, getting another gen ai bot to review, and slapping a LGTM on it. Instead of understanding it: spec it, gen it, commit it, and then celebrate on socials. This bs is giving the unbelievable progress of AI a bad name.