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Sort of tangent, but is there a semi automated way to select which engineer would be best to implement a ticket? Something like "we need to modify this API, let's run git blame and see who has the most familiarity" and some form of scheduler that prioritizes the most experienced engineers on the parts of code that only they know?

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Not that I know of.

I do think you could do some analysis to associate code with implementers and create graphs, where you account for additional things like time. I could see LLMs being helpful in maybe doing part of that analysis. But I would use that to see where the biggest "bus factor" is, i.e., finding subsystems where there's really only one active contributor.

For planning or task assignment, it might just help to say "ask X for more detail" when there's no other docs or your LLM is spewing jibberish about a topic

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