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David Crawshaw's prompt for automated open source maintenance
Simon Willison shares a quote from David Crawshaw's prompt that uses a nightly cron job to fetch changes from upstream repositories and rebase local changes. The prompt verifies that the software works as intended before version updates.
WHY IT MATTERS
It illustrates how AI agents can automate routine tasks in open source projects, which can improve software maintenance with less effort.
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