Dependabot
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
1warn against
Nov 23, 2025first mention
Jul 30, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I love bots like Renovate and Dependabot for taking care of updating my projects' dependencies.”
Caveats and dissent
“endless dependabot PRs with no understanding of the reason or impact, bad.”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- PRoctr – doctor/triage for your renovate/dependabot PRs 1 mention
- Fable extended until 19 July 1 mention
- Turn Dependabot Off 1 mention
- We should all be using dependency cooldowns 1 mention
Data: dependabot.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“I love bots like Renovate and Dependabot for taking care of updating my projects' dependencies.”
“enabling dependabot automerge”
“renovate[bot] (similar to dependabot)”
“endless dependabot PRs with no understanding of the reason or impact, bad.”