Tectonic makes LaTeX easier to work on with an agent
I recently used Tectonic to rerender my résumé and make changes with a coding agent. This made the back-and-forth a lot easier. I could ask for a change, have the agent edit the underlying LaTeX, and get another PDF to check. In my opinion, Tectonic and a coding agent are now a pretty practical alternative to Overleaf if you’re working on a document by yourself. The agent can work directly on local files and run the compiler. This way you don’t need it clicking around a browser through computer-use tools trying to diagnose how your tables are formatted. ...