I should really give it another look, I usually ended up not adopting it for projects because of the boilerplate and high setup overheard, but those are both things that ai agents can usually be trusted with. Maybe the calculus has changed.
Gazelle, the BUILD file generator for Go, now supports plugins and several other languages have Gazelle plugins.
I’ve used AI to generate BUILD file generators before, though. I had good luck getting it to write a script that would analyze a Java project with circular dependencies and aggregate the cycle participants into a single target.
I don’t like generative AI for rote tasks like this, but I’ve had good luck using generative AI to write deterministic code generators that I can commit to a project and reuse.