Homelabs

Finally got around to setting up Wireguard on my router (OPNsense) and got my devices as peers.

Now I want to be out of the house more just to test the tunnel connection 😆

I spent 3+ hours prompting both ChatGPT 4o and Claude Opus to troubleshoot one small issue and ran into a circular step of running commands to set some settings only for it to not fix anything.

I then spent 60 seconds googling the problem and following the advice of an obscure Reddit post.

I want to keep my expectations for AI realistic without losing the optimism of how helpful it’ll quickly become, but experiences like this make it hard.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

one thing i've found is that AI is extremly useful when using it to solve that's a variation of a known or a popular problem even it's difficult. It's pretty bad at solving obscure issues and spouts generic answers.

I do remember sama saying that curation will be an important job in the age of AI and i agree with that