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The AI worked out his home server setup and wrote a remote unlock tool for it

A home server owner had the AI study his running server and turn the setup into Ansible files, which they refined together until it worked. The AI also wrote a small tool that unlocks the server encrypted disk from another machine, which he now uses.

How it works

  1. The AI studies the running server
  2. Writes Ansible files that rebuild the setup
  3. Owner and the AI refine the files together until the setup works
  4. The AI writes a remote LUKS unlock tool

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent read a hand built server setup and turned it into files that can rebuild it, then wrote the unlock tool the owner was missing.

Where it’s from

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

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