Unix veteran of decades says AI assistants cured his sysadmin dread
PTrubey · x · 2026-10-14
A developer who has reluctantly done Unix system administration since the minicomputer era says he is losing his long-held dread of sysadmin work thanks to AI assistants. He realized he can run Grok Bot on his Linux home server and a Raspberry Pi, calling the discovery a revelation.
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