I've been getting a little heartbroken seeing some of the "replace every tool with AI" enthusiasm on social media, so I wrote up two simple lessons I learned because I write stuff by hand.
I realise everyone's welcome to their own toolchain; LLMs are fine. I just want to write about the kind of thing I value, and how it helps me to connect to the broader Unix community.
I was running letsencrypt on my homelab k8s cluster to renew the certificate, but I tore the cluster down a few months ago because I was moving home and haven't stood letsencrypt back up yet.
Namecheap only sends email alerts about non-automated renewing certificates; because the cert renewal was automated, I didn't receive any alerts. Everything's fixed now!
Humans are able to adapt to new situations not in history books nor databases.
I'll keep those skills. I think we can all share stories of canned solutions that worked except in the corner cases we ran into, or in my case, a team member who only knew GUI tools, so he would create overlapping disk partitions, which I had to entirely redo with the CLI.
I don't place faith in something whose internals are entirely opaque and which has a record of failures. Even if I looked at only a few examples of Unix command source code, I knew that others did, and didn't have to run regression tests on them.
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I was running letsencrypt on my homelab k8s cluster to renew the certificate, but I tore the cluster down a few months ago because I was moving home and haven't stood letsencrypt back up yet.
Namecheap only sends email alerts about non-automated renewing certificates; because the cert renewal was automated, I didn't receive any alerts. Everything's fixed now!
I'll keep those skills. I think we can all share stories of canned solutions that worked except in the corner cases we ran into, or in my case, a team member who only knew GUI tools, so he would create overlapping disk partitions, which I had to entirely redo with the CLI.
I don't place faith in something whose internals are entirely opaque and which has a record of failures. Even if I looked at only a few examples of Unix command source code, I knew that others did, and didn't have to run regression tests on them.