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Bootstrapping...
verb
Definition
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verb
Starting a system by having the system start itself, a feat which only works if you don't look at it too closely.
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verb
Assembling the scaffolding of a project before there is anything to scaffold; producing, out of nothing, a package.json.
Example
“Bootstrapping a small kingdom of configuration.”— Claude Code, beginning