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xmcqdpt2 • yesterday at 12:24 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Hopefully people don't rely on Claude for Ops, and if it's not Ops-related but just regular coding, I can't see why it shouldn't be able to wait a few days.

IME if anything, people are relying on LLMs for ops more than for development! Devops convinced management that ops isn't actually all that valuable and that devs can just do it. IaC is usually a mess of boring YAML based syntax that no one in their right mind want to learn anyway. Learning Ansible doesn't feel like a transferable skill unlike learning a programming language or paradigm, and in most teams the quality of the IaC stuff (abstraction, code reuse etc.) never mattered much.

As soon as LLMs became good, generating IaC stuff was like the first thing to go full vibe coding, at least for me. I'm proud of my craft, I don't produce bad code with my name on it, I very carefully review all the code changes etc. Devops YAML stuff? Couldn't care less.


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streetfighter64 • yesterday at 2:32 PM

Right, perhaps I used the wrong term. I'm referring to sysadmin stuff, like what MS got wrong in their latest outage. "DevOps" or YAML stuff is to actual Ops like Excel is to actual programming.