I've been building Codenames AI as a solo project I want to keep alive. Renovate helps dependency upgrades move without maintenance eventually crushing momentum.
You don't need my exact setup to follow along.
Every project accumulates maintenance work. Framework upgrades are one place that work stalls, not because engineers do not know how to migrate, but because proving what actually needs to change takes time. That tradeoff shows up on a hobby repo as "I'll look at this when I have an uninterrupted evening." It shows up in production as major versions piling up while investigation competes with feature work.
That's the problem I was trying to solve.
Before AI, my realistic choices were narrow: trust the automation and hope, spend hours mapping release notes to my codebase, or leave the upgrade sitting.
