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hakrgrltoday at 2:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Getting builds to work was some of the most tedious, least interesting work. It is so satisfying to watch the agent try 4 different things and magically go on its way. No more makefile syntax searches or cmake hell.


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freedombentoday at 5:06 PM

For real. I stopped writing Makefiles because of how tedious it was, but now with AI I'm back to throwing Makefiles in everything. It's wonderful to have the same build, test, release commands in all projects instead of mix compile in one, npm build in another, etc. This is my favorite part of AI