What If Your GitHub Commits Wrote Your Release Notes?

<p><strong>The Problem:</strong> Changelogs suck to write. You finish a sprint, merged 47 pull requests, squashed bugs, shipped features, and now you have to sit down and

<p>Release notes often describe a change with phrases such as “improved<br /> performance” or “fixed several issues.” Those phrases sound finished, but they<br /> do not tell a

<p>Before every release, somebody generates the notes. It used to take twenty minutes of scrolling the commit log. Now a model does it in four seconds, and there are a dozen

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2>

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<p>I read the phrase "spec-driven development" and immediately decided it was for people without taste. Six months later, Claude Code generated a discount system that applied

<h1> Built a Conventional Commits CLI with free AI tools (zero cost) </h1> <p>Staring at a staged diff trying to summarize it in one sentence is a tax every developer pays. "fix

<p>I have been a freelance frontend developer for a while now.</p> <p>I use GitHub Copilot and Cursor every day. AI coding tools that are supposed to make me faster.</p> <p>And