Yes, I used LLMs to develop this. I think the README has more emojis than any mortal could summon. Hehe

I used ChatGPT to design the solution that I wanted and Claude Sonnet to do most of the coding.

I'm trying to figure out what works for me in the brave new world of AI enabled development, so that I can make recommendations to my team.

A few things that really helped me here were:

- Having the gitlab cli (glab) installed and configured was very helpful because it allowed me to do things like lint the CI file and inspect the build output in the LLM context.

- Having the zereight/gitlab-mcp installed was useful as well. Even though I can make Issues and MRs using the CLI, the LLM frequently made escaping mistakes when writing long comment sections. The mcp tool was great for this.

- Almost all of my process started with me describing a bug or feature, then asking the LLM to investigate the feature and create an Issue. From there I tried as much as possible to keep the scope of my work small and exclusively tied to an issue branch.

I'm a reasonably good programmer - I've been at it for 30 years. I think there's no question that LLMs expand my "radius of capability." Just like everyone else, I'm trying to figure out the best way to safely maximize this new world of tools.