A major benefit of writing a changelog is that it shames you into doing a release and bumping the version occasionally.
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LLMs seem to handle dependency upgrades really well.
The task is well-specified, there's usually a build/test suite to check correctness of the modifications, and there's often a changelog they can consume too.