> but rote re-typing of the same build systems I hear this argument a lot with coding agents but I just don't understand it. Why are you rewriting so much code

> but rote re-typing of the same build systems I hear this argument a lot with coding agents but I just don't understand it. Why are you rewriting so much code? Scaffolding like main? I'm not going to buy that automating 1-4 lines of code is a real time sink. If it is, we got macros for that. If you're repeating lines, this sounds like what functions and classes are for. If your code is having lots of rewriting of things then it is just going to become an unmaintainable mess as a function is written in a dozen different places. Should they not just be packaged into a library? Long variable or function names? We've had autocomplete for decades. Including autocomplete that will do lines and be contextually dependent. There's better solutions to lots of things like templates and functors that allow us to move through abstraction to greatly minimize re-typing. These solutions reduce lines of code, increase flexibility, and vastly reduce the need to re-type things. I'll admit that coding agents seem great if you want to measure a programmer's output by the number of lines of code they generate, but writing lines of code is just a small portion of the work.