For the longest time I wanted to automated things with ansible. But it was a massive paint to plan/create new playbooks to manage servers and services. But now with Claude Code and other AI agents the ground has shifted. I have created a git repo that contains all my infra information minus credentials. Claude uses it to manage my infra using tools like terraform/tofu and Ansible. I also review the changes before they are pushed. And it is exceptionally good at debugging issues. If something breaks or starts acting weird I asked Claude to take a look and it can get to the bottom of it far quicker than me pocking around. Particularly when I get a call when I was sleeping.

I’m on a similar trajectory. Claude is excellent at writing Dockerfiles, compose files, and operating docker. “Add a daily backup container to this compose file which writes to a new volume”, and it’s done.

I also experimented with skill-creator to generate a skill for “operating” my chezmoi in a read only way, and now when I use Claude in a certain directory it tells me what needs to be updated and which commands to issue. I can see why people are worried about human skill decline!