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An AI sysadmin bot with root access runs his servers, directed from his phone

Made an AI sysadmin bot with root SSH that runs hourly health checks, Monday 6am updates with rollback, firewall, nginx and site fixes he triggers from his phone.

How it works

  1. He makes a sysadmin bot with root SSH access
  2. It runs hourly health checks
  3. Monday 6 am updates with rollback
  4. Firewall and web fixes he triggers from his phone

Why it’s worth knowing

Rollback is the word that makes Monday updates at 6 am sane.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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