Maintaining a fork seems trivial for an LLM. Replaying each upstream commit against your fork is exactly what even dumb models can do without issue.

But at the same time LLMs also let you question why you’re using a dependency if it’s causing certain issues for you.

e.g. I got tired of waiting for libghostty to publish a new stable release since the one in March which would have a memory leak fix I reported, so I spent a week of getting LLMs to build my own solid pty/terminal emulator. Now I have my own and frankly I'm in a better position having done it.

That's a ridiculously massive change to our relationship with software projects.