miniblog.

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.

I made some changes to a node express project that I haven't touched in almost five years. I was pleasantly surprised that I only needed to update one dependency to get it working again! (It was sqlite3, which is a native dependency using node-gyp.)

I struggle with dependency syntax. I never remember what ^1.2.3 means or how it differs from ~1.2.3. I believe both npm and cargo assign the same meanings to this notation, but it's less obvious than e.g. 1.x. 1.2.3 isn't an exact version constraint either!