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Surely 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 hea

Surely 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 ago
I 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.