PR descriptions from hell: why I stopped chasing perfect AI automation

I got tired of writing pull request descriptions. Every single PR needs a summary of what changed, why, how to test it. And no matter how disciplined I tried to be, I'd either rush it or forget details. So I thought: "Let's automate this with AI." What followed was a rabbit hole of API keys, local models, and false starts. Here's what I learned. The dream: one curl and done I imagined a Git hook that runs after I create a PR, feeds the diff to an LLM, and auto-generates a descripti...