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The hype around GitHub Copilot (or any other AI code assistant) is deafening. AI-assisted coding. Effortless automation. 10x productivity.

But here’s the harsh truth: Copilot isn’t empowering junior developers – it’s deskilling them.

In a previous article, we laid it out – unfiltered: Copilot turns junior devs into syntax secretaries.

Not because it’s evil. But because it removes friction before understanding.

It gives you working code before you know what working even means. It creates the illusion of progress, while slowly eroding the very skills that define a software engineer: reasoning, decision-making, and technical ownership.

In software development, dependencies are inevitable - any project worth its salt relies on various libraries, frameworks, or packages. However, as I found in my own work, managing these dependencies can be an onerous task. Constant updates, new vulnerabilities, and endless manual approvals were draining my time and focus. What if, I thought, these processes could be automated? This thought led to the creation of dependamerge, a GitHub Action designed to free developers from the drudgery of manual dependency maintenance and let us get back to what we do best: building great software.