alt Hacker NewsYeah Bazel is a PITA to do yourself. I haven't tried but I'm confident Claude et al. would handle it just fine. By similar logic I recently adopted NixOS for a lot of my servers; Claude is perfectly happy to slog through the pain of Nix configs for me.
I’m not a fan of generative AI for the use case because it’s rote enough to do deterministically, but deterministic code generation is getting better and better.
Gazelle, the BUILD file generator for Go, now supports plugins and several other languages have Gazelle plugins.
I’ve used AI to generate BUILD file generators before, though. I had good luck getting it to write a script that would analyze a Java project with circular dependencies and aggregate the cycle participants into a single target.