Comment by skydhash

> generate new modules/classes in your projects

If it's formulaic enough, I will use the editor templates/snippets generator. Or write a code generator (if it involves a bunch of files). If it's not, I probably have another class I can copy and strip out (especially in UI and CRUD).

> integrate module A into module B

If it's cannot be done easily, that's the sign of a less than optimal API.

> entire codebase A into codebase B

Is that a real need?

> get someones github project up and running on your machine, do you manually fiddle with cmakes and npms

If the person can't be bothered to give proper documentation, why should I run the project? But actually, I will look into AUR (archlinux) and Homebrew formula if someone has already do the first jobs of figuring dependency version. If there's a dockerfile, I will use that instead.

> convert an idea or plan.md or a paper into working code?

Iteratively. First have an hello world or something working, then mowing down the task list.

> Fix flakes, fix test<->code discrepancies or increase coverage etc

Either the test is wrong or the code is wrong. Figure out which and rework it. The figuring part always take longer as you will need to ask around.

> If you do all this manually, why?

Because when something happens in prod, you really don't want that feeling of being the last one that have interacted with that part, but with no idea of what has changed.