Home lab saga: crash-prone Beelink revived by having one AI instruct another to build a VM

leebase65 · reddit · 2026-09-13

The author's Beelink mini-PC (Ryzen 7, 64GB) kept crashing under load from AI CLI tools despite low CPU/RAM usage; a move to WSL2 on a newer machine fixed things, and the old box has now run 22 days idle — likely a power adapter issue ($38 fix, warranty claim pending). The fun part: when his coding AI needed a test VM, he had it brief a Warp admin AI on the old box, which built the VM and reported back — two AIs collaborating seamlessly.

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