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I don’t know. From my experience I get pretty good descriptions of PRs if I ask the right questions and provide some context.

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> provide some context

That's pretty much what a PR description is.

The difference is an LLM can convert a stream of consciousness into well-formed prose for approximately free; I assume ‘provide some context’ means ‘brain dump’ in the OP

This has unfortunately not been my experience at all. Often LLMs miss or get wrong subtle details when I don't do the pre-work to organize my thoughts well ahead of time (at which point it's unclear how much value they're providing).

Work doesn't start with a PR description though. I'm assuming most people that are using LLMs start with some sort of document (plan, spec, intent, etc) which captures intent.

I guess you could also use all the session rollouts saved to disk that were related to that task, and distill them somehow.

Writing a paper doesn't start with writing an abstract too, but no one wants to get hit with all the notes that a scientist has collected on his experiments. The abstract is a nice 10-30 seconds explanation on why this paper is worth reading.

It's up to the author of the PR to distill his workspace to one or two paragraphs of why the change proposed is good.

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