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His local AI looks after his other computers and fixed the drive that kept dying

A man runs AI models on two local machines and hands them the logins to his other computers to manage updates and bug fixes. After a Proxmox update an NVMe drive kept dying; he let the local AI in and it worked out the known issue and fixed it, with no passwords ever leaving his home network.

How it works

  1. He gives his local AI the credentials for his other machines
  2. It manages their updates and bug fixes
  3. After a Proxmox update an NVMe drive keeps dying
  4. The AI investigates, finds the known issue and fixes it

Why it’s worth knowing

The sysadmin lives inside his own house on local machines, passwords never leave the network, and it still fixed the fault.

Where it’s from

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

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