I Let an AI Set Up My Java/.NET Bridge Project — Here's What Happened

Setting up a Java/.NET bridge project from scratch is one of those tasks that shouldn't be hard but somehow always is. Proxy generation, classpath wiring, transport configuration, build scripts — there are enough moving parts that you'll spend your first afternoon just getting "Hello World" to compile. So we tried something different: we pointed Claude Code at a reference project, gave it a CLAUDE.md file documenting every file and build step, and let it handle the wiring. The result was surpri