Developer building autonomous changelog generator

Why they built it

Tired of manually writing release notes after dozens of commits in fast-paced development cycles for large applications

What worked

Local/private processing, time savings on large merge trains and release prep, consistent style, full commit coverage, easy one-command usage

What broke or was painful

Requires manual review of AI output for accuracy; falls back to prompt-only if no LLM available

The result

Automates changelog generation from git history using local AI, reducing manual effort from tedious writing to one-command operation