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An agent migrated his whole setup to a declarative system, backups included

Migrated a fairly complex setup to NixOS 1 to 1 with an LLM agent and gained declarative services, backups and redeploy tooling.

How it works

  1. He migrates a fairly complex setup with an LLM agent
  2. Gains declarative services, backups and redeploy tooling

Why it’s worth knowing

The backups are the feature: they change what he dares to change.

Where it’s from

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

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