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Bootstrapping...

verb

Definition

  1. 1

    verb

    Starting a system by having the system start itself, a feat which only works if you don't look at it too closely.

  2. 2

    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