There is at a tiny glimmer of life on the earthly front - yesterday, they merged their first changes in 6 months:

[1] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/commit/6d7f6786ad9fa4392f... [2] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/commit/89d31fc014a8980a50...

I am really really hoping that someone (not me, I've already tried and failed) could slim it down into a single-purpose, self-contained, community maintainable tool ...

Dagger (https://dagger.io) recently seems to have reinvented/rebranded itself as some llm agent platform.

Oh no...this must have been recent. DevOps is hitting peak enshitification. I didn't have a plan B.

ah too bad! I wanted to use it!