Now, do I want reverse engineering software from someone who in 2026 doesn't know of a better way to manage dependencies than "tell AI to install everything"? Not particularly lol

Also:

Install Eclipse Adoptium 21: https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=21

It's Eclipse Temurin not Eclipse Adoptium. And why not install from distro repo?

Install from https://cmake.org/download/

Also why not from distro repo?

Install Visual Studio 2022, or apt install build-essential / xcode-select --install

NOW distro repo is fine, but only if you use an APT based distro?

and then 3 more dependencies it tells the agent to install from websites.

The weirdest thing is you can get much better results from AI. I'm 99% sure this person gave the AI particularly bad instructions to generate the install instructions, or used a cheap, crappy model.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I think it's written that way because the instructions are meant to work on Windows too. But it still doesn't make much sense. I think just saying "Install CMake" and letting the agent figure it out for the current environment would be a much better approach.

Also, I think the model they were using was working with outdated data. Why specifically require Java 21 when Java 25 is the latest LTS? And furthermore, why even link to a specific JDK implementation when it surely works with almost any implementation? Probably just makes the agent install the Temurin implementation even if the system already had a working java.

My point being if the author's idea is to let AI handle the installation to avoid writing environment-specific instructions, it shouldn't then have these hardcoded assumptions about the environment. So yeah, it seems they (and the AI that wrote it) didn't really know what they were doing.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

Ai loves outdated versions. It’s what it’s trained on