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A local AI built a legacy Windows project into an exe while he slept

Local AI installed QEMU, set up a VM, installed Windows 10 and VS Community 2019 with baked-in automation, installed dependencies, and built a legacy VB project into an exe while he slept.

How it works

  1. A local AI installs the emulator and a virtual machine
  2. Installs Windows and the old dev tools with baked-in automation
  3. Installs dependencies
  4. Builds the legacy project into an exe while he sleeps

Why it’s worth knowing

Recreating a 2019 build machine from scratch is archaeology with a happy ending.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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