I get the feeling that with LLMs in the mix, in-house server management can do a lot more than it used to.

The internet of 20 years ago was awash with info for running dedicated servers, fragmented and badly-written in places but it was all there. I can absolutely believe LLMs would enable more people to find that knowledge more easily.

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tgv 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Perhaps it saves some time looking through the docs, but do you really trust an LLM to do the actual work?

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windex 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes and an LLM checks it as well. I am yet to find a sysadmin task that an LLM couldn't solve neatly.

	▲	jdkoeck 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A nice bonus is that sysadmin tasks tend to be light in terms of token usage, that’s very convenient given the increasingly strict usage limits these days.

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andoando 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, with a lot of reviewing what its doing/asking questions, 100%

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fragmede 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

By this point? Absolutely. They still get stuck in rabbit holes and go down the wrong path sometimes, so it's not fully fire and forget, but if you aren't taking advantage of LLMs to perform generic sysadmin drudgery, you're wasting your time that could be better spent elsewhere.