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And here's me, after 4 straight days of wrangling an obscure cross-compilation toolchain to resurrect some ill-fated piece of software from year 2011 in a modern embedded environment.

Letting an agent figure out how to compile old projects is magical. What used to be multiple days of slog is now “compile this, make changes and download tools as needed” with 10 mins of git review to make sure it didn’t do anything stupid.

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