Five years ago, I would've loved this. I love the simplicity and power of good old Make. And I obsess over my workstation's configuration. I used to have a massive bash script I would use to reprovision my workstation after every clean upgrade of Ubuntu.

But these days, I just tell codex to install things for me. I basically use it as a universal package manager. It's more reliable honestly than trying to keep up to date with "what's the current recommended way to install this package?"

I also have it keep a list of packages I have installed, which is synced to GitHub every time the list changes.

I feel like even iPad kids are more capable with a computer than HN users these days.

Add the LLM to your makefile then :p

  target:
      llm command "Install X for me."

Just add the universal install script to AGENTS.md and yolo https://xkcd.com/1654/