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I started my self hosting journey a bit over a year ago. Now I host and maintain multiple services for me and my family. 1000% absolutely could not have set it all up without ChatGPT. Just no way.

Thing is, I’m not a computer beginner. I’d confidently say I’m a moderately advanced computer user with a decent understanding of Linux/BSD and POSIX shell. I used ChatGPT to learn how to set things up gradually. Yes, things did break a couple of times and I spent a few late nights fixing them, but I never ran commands that I knew were irreversible until I fully understood what they did. This cautiousness comes with experience.

So, unlike many, I do encourage the use of ChatGPT for assisting with computer related projects, just know your abilities and don’t trust the robot unconditionally.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
By the time you ask AI you could just read the docs

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- pfr@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I did both 🙏
  
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- atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  AI is so much faster than reading docs. And you get context specific responses that you can drill into. When used correctly it’s very useful.
  
  This was using it… incorrectly though…
  
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  - pfr@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Totally agree. The docs don’t talk back and can’t clarify specifics or uncertainty. I always read the docs first (probably should have noted that in my first comment), but often I’d have specific questions or concerns regarding unintended affects on other services on my sever etc.
    
    I’d never JUST run with AI to set something up. But it’s like having someone sit with you who knows what they’re doing, but dont know anything about your existing setup. So asking questions while also explaining my current setup, and pasting in and errors or warnings, is what made it useful for me.
    
    I know some people think you should just learn from docs alone. That’s fine. My anecdotal comment was only highlighting how I was finally able to do something outside my knowledge and skillset because I had specific contextual help from AI.
    
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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Sometimes, if it’s something I am quite unfamiliar with, I’ll pull of 3 or 4 AI and give them the same directive, just to see how each interpret the data.

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pleksi@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Im on the same boat. Especiakly claude opus 4.5 writes better scripts in 20s than i could in 2 hours of web search and debugging

For critical baremetal/live situations i will use the docs and/or use AI for debugging help only.

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