One prompt away: using codex to set up Niri on NixOS hands-free
SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-09-09
A minimal agent workflow: install NixOS and codex, then simply ask the model to "set up Niri and make it pretty."
It's a neat demonstration that coding agents can now handle full system configuration—even on a declarative, notoriously config-heavy distro like NixOS—replacing hundreds of lines of hand-written dotfiles with a natural language prompt.
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