The absolute best thing about coding agents is not having to waste time on build systems. I had Claude code port my autotools scripts to meson (which uses ninja) and it’s been a huge quality of life improvement.

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hakrgrl 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	freedomben 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		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

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reactordev 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Soon you won’t even have to waste time on the code part…

	▲	tom_ 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's only a waste of your tine if you don't want to do it.