20-year sysadmin: AI is a godsend for handling hundreds of daily updates
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-10-23
Dan Jeffries, a professional sysadmin for twenty years who still manages a dozen systems, asks why nobody talks about how useful AI is for operations work.
He handles hundreds of small updates daily, notes that updates have always sucked, and says AI makes them far easier. He's fed up with fear mongering and believes AI's gains in this tedious IT work are badly underappreciated.
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