abadideaif AI wants to be useful, it can read the build instructions of a github readme and tell me which seventeen packages the author forgot to mention I need to install first
Robert Thau@0xabad1dea Unfortunately, those aren't in the README at all -- all the devs already had the "silent dependencies" installed for other reasons, so they weren't even aware they were requiring whatever-it-was to be present.
(Depending on the situation, it may or may not be feasible to detect these by static analysis of the code...)