While I dislike makefiles for the same reasons many echoed in this thread, with AI it doesn't matter. It's such an ubuiquitous gormat Llm are well trained on t

While I dislike makefiles for the same reasons many echoed in this thread, with AI it doesn't matter. It's such an ubuiquitous gormat Llm are well trained on them. So you don't have to read or edit it, just let the robot do it for you. It will do it well, and it's not something you do often anyway. Then you can enjoy the other qualities of the tool, like the fact it's already there on unix, or that it's more than a task runner. Although I prefer "just" or "doit", in 2024, make is fine again.