Quoting David Crawshaw

David Crawshaw, in a blog post titled 'Devtools must be open source', proposes a nightly cron job that fetches upstream changes to software, rebases local changes on top, verifies functionality, and replaces the current version, illustrating a prompt-engineering approach for coding agents.

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version. — David Crawshaw https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source , Devtools must be open source Tags: prompt-engineering https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-engineering , coding-agents https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents , generative-ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai , ai https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai , llms https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms , open-source https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source