NixOS is high-level declarative, so you're reading high-level config diffs when the AI agent is pitching changes.

Unless you're brand new to Linux or computing, it's not a mystery what a given nix config change is ever doing.

You can probably guess what this does:

    networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 8080, 9000 ];

The things to know about the OS are high level things. The rest of its idiosyncrasies you learn just in time through daily exposure like anything else.

▲ shevy-java 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Unless you're brand new to Linux or computing, it's not a mystery what a given nix config change is ever doing.

I am not brand new - and I don't know what the heck the config is doing.

That is why I rely on documentation.

The "code is self-explanatory" is always an attempt to not have useful documentation and try to rationalise that problem away.

	▲	hombre_fatal an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Nothing about this changes with Nix nor AI agents. You can read documentation on an as-needed basis or to your heart's content. The point is that the majority of the day to day changes I make to my desktop environment aren't so critical that I need to do more than read an AI agent's proposed changes to my config and accept them when they look reasonable. And I don't think looking up the exact config options to NixOS' networking system does anything to increase my knowledge of the OS. It's just a triviality.