Why I Built an AI Changelog Generator (And Why I'll Never Write One Manually Again)

Why I Built an AI Changelog Generator (And Why I'll Never Write One Manually Again) There's a particular kind of developer hell that nobody talks about enough: the changelog. You've just shipped a solid week of work. Tests pass. CI is green. The PR is merged. You're feeling good. And then someone asks: "Can you update the changelog?" And you die a little inside. The Actual Problem I used to handle this one of two ways, both bad: Option A : Copy-paste git log --oneline into the release notes and call it a day. Users get entries like fix stuff , wip , asdfgh , and final FINAL v2 please work . Useless. Option B : Spend 20-30 minutes manually reading through commits, reconstructing intent from cryptic messages, writing human-friendly prose, and trying to remember what "refactor auth middleware" actually meant three days ago when I was in the zone. Neither is acceptable if you're shipping fast. Neither scales. What I Actually Wanted I wanted something that could look at a diff or a commit r