Comment on How my AI Agent views and maintains "our" homelab
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 day ago
I Hope you done get down voted to oblivion. I found the read interesting.
While I still don’t see advantage in using agents for these tasks, because I have fun doing them myself, I have great interest to see where all this leads.
variety4me@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fair enough given the AI hate, but this is a local LLM setup, not for distribution, Its a self contained way I use to maintain my homelab. Some may find it useful, some may not.
Just as you have fun doing this yourself, I have fun making/configuring a local agent do it for me
I use AI, i don’t hate it at all. It’s a tool. And as such needs to be used properly and not abused. Like a knife or a camera or a drone.
I am looking at agents with interest and i believe it’s still early to try them myself, but any early adopters and experiments I find interest in …
variety4me@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Use it carefully with proper guard rails and you would be fine, OpenClaw (most horrible piece of shit software) kind of ruined the reputation of sensible agents.
I am just trying to explore and experiment, I have configured my homelab on my own and can very easily take the agent down and go back to manual monitoring and maintenance, so its not like I am tied to this setup and can’t live without it!
Yes, I don’t hate the technology, I hate all the evil companies abusing this technology for profit, fascism and death, which is very close to all of them.
But they are not the only ones working on the technology, and even though they have stolen many of people’s entire lives worth of work for making these models and not only didn’t compensate them, but in many cases replaced them and terminated their employment, in many cases we are stealing it right the fuck back from them and making it open to everybody, because fuck them. It doesn’t belong to them in the first place, it belongs to all of us. We can’t put the genie back in the lamp or the toothpaste back in the tube, but we can make sure we are keeping our own data for ourselves once we take these monstrous, bloated, oligarchs down. We will not the libraries of Alexandria burn down again, and we won’t let them have the only copies.
I won’t pretend I don’t have various issues with open weight models using this technology, but they’re more like “I don’t like systemd’s philosophy or developers” level of issues, not “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.
With the evil companies, I absolutely DO have “I think they will destroy democracy, civilization and possibly all of humanity” level of issues.
CarlSagansMeatplanet@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If nothing else this seems like a really fun experiment!
variety4me@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Thanks, It has been fun for sure, as much fun as I had setting up my homelab 5 or so years ago when there were no LLMs