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The AI talked him through fixing a server that crashed every few weeks, in about an hour

The AI, proxying commands through him, diagnosed and fixed in about an hour a box that OOMed and needed rebooting every few weeks.

How it works

  1. The AI proxies commands through him
  2. Diagnoses the box that ran out of memory every few weeks
  3. Fixes it in about an hour

Why it’s worth knowing

His hands, the agent's head: the split worked because the commands came one at a time.

Where it’s from

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

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