alt Hacker NewsNot to take your credit away but there is something called automation, scripting, etc.
All those actions within my homelab are automated via Ansible and bash scripts (I only run Linux), I am only notified if something goes wrong like a backup failed.
I get it if you never worked in IT, that is fine, but you need zero AI to get the above fully automated.
Does Claude keep versioning of the changes?? I host my own repos via Forgejo, Ansible and the automation process consume the config files from there, one source of truth. If my whole setup burns with fire, I can bring everything back online from the offsite Ansible playbook located at Codeberg.
Why not both? My entire home network (dns, zfs nas, subnets, kube, proxmox hosts, ipa domain, its overkill homeprod) is represented by a git repo. Docs, plans, scripts to bootstrap nodes to domain join, kube config, proxmox tooling, ipa as code, nas as code, cert management, my own ec2 as a service, etc. Making changes is done via a mix of one off tooling, ansible and terraform.
I use Claude or codex to manage the entire thing, interchangeably. They keep detailed daily journals. They keep a central TODO.md up to date. They refresh stale docs or stale plans when new plans invalidate old decisions.
I have so many layers of backups and fail safes that I work entirely in yolo mode. It’s really insane what I’ve been able to deploy myself on nights and weekends. Stuff I’ve wanted to tackle for years but never got around to it.