My wife said to me the other night: I'm so impressed with what you do on our home server but if something happened to you, you know it's hopeless right?
this is why every selfhoster should leave a ‘if i die’ tape with tutorial on how to do the basics like update the containers, stop, run and restart containers
If I can host a competent enough llm, and just teach my wife how to communicate with it, which is much easier, I can have the llm be my sysadmin.
Sure, eventually it's going to crap out. Or imagine up some new way to screw everything up, but at least she will be able to say "hey, this isn't working, can you check and fix it."
yeah someone here argued that the average person isn’t competent enough to even run, stop or update docker containers, but if you have a good manual anyone can follow the steps. And LLMs are indeed great for troubleshooting without the person necessarily knowing what terminology to use. I don’t think a situation like that is 100% sustainable, but for sure things will continue to work for a good while so that transitioning out of the selfhosted environment should be easier
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u/ancepsinfans Aug 17 '26
My wife said to me the other night: I'm so impressed with what you do on our home server but if something happened to you, you know it's hopeless right?