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That should be quite easy compared to software development, which is much more open-ended since the requirement are usually more nebulous, potentially contradic
by samus 3y ago
That should be quite easy compared to software development, which is much more open-ended since the requirement are usually more nebulous, potentially contradictory, and at times simply wrong.
- amelius 3y agoYet, I haven't seen an AI that solves the software distribution problem. Tools like ChatGPT are often plain wrong when answering questions about basic sysadmin problems, and even make up commands.
- samus 3y agoThe software distribution problem is not a close-ended, technical task that we could realistically expect an LLM to have an answer for. At least not now. The latter problem could eventually be lessened by fine-tuning the LLM more specifically and by improving the tooling around it. For example, by automatically briefing it about peculiarities of the operating systems.
- c0balt 3y ago> That should be quite easy SysAdmin stuff is quite easy in terms of complexity to some sw stuff. The problems, similar to traditional engineering, tend to come from the rather high cost of failure. To expand further, it's easy to setup a system but hard to setup one that's reliable and/ or resilient. It's hard to maintain systems that are not documented and/ or wrongly documented (outdated, inaccurate). It's even harder to always make sure everything's consistent and you don't lose/ damage data.
- jaggederest 3y agoYeah imagine giving an AI root access to the server with your production database on it. Now I really want to try that in a VM to see what will happen. Even odds at some point it tries to rm-rf everything.
- samus 3y agoNobody is considering giving AI unrestricted access to anything yet. Code written by AI is reviewed by humans, and I would be shocked to hear that sysadmins are considering letting AI agents execute arbitrary commands.
- singularity2001 3y agoI gave GPT root access, so far without regrets admittedly I recently added a soft barrier "for dangerous commands please ask for confirmation"