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I don't. I'm paid to know my job and if I don't I read a book, or the man page for that matter. You write configuration to learn the application. See what make
by doublerabbit 2y ago
I don't. I'm paid to know my job and if I don't I read a book, or the man page for that matter.
You write configuration to learn the application. See what makes it work, and what makes it fail.
You press random buttons and then rebuild from scratch when it breaks to learn mistakes.
- JohnMakin 2y agoSurely any senior sys admin or devops type will have accumulated such a breadth of knowledge across so many topics that they cannot keep everything in their head to be retrieved at any moment - if you are one of those, congrats. This seems unnecessarily luddite though, AI can definitely speed up some of this (such as writing boilerplate configs or debugging dumb issues like mis-indented yaml)
- doublerabbit 2y agoI personally keep cheat sheets within Excel. Each tab refers to each system. I can keep which sysctl's have been configured. Parameters used for daemons and I pretty much carry it with me. Network stats, io.. And your not wrong, I am happy to embrace AI. I'm not denying it's purpose, a future tech as the likes of cloud for hosting services but if errors are what your using AI/ML for then the fixes are not going to help you from not making them. I enjoy problem solving and boilerplates allow me to waste the mornings sipping coffee and lazing around till the afternoon. AI/ML to me is more a teacher, where if there is a specific syntax, procedure, function which I don't fully understand from documentation I can have it explain it to me in an analogically fashion.