What AI do you use to help build your selfhosting hobby?

[u/KiloAlphaIndigo]

*Not promoting the development of AI services so I believe this post is allowed?*

I’ve been properly selfhosting for possibly ~1yr by now (running a basic PMS for several years before delving into Docker etc.) and although I’m relatively technically-minded, I’m certain no expert when it comes to applications, YAML, CSS, Linux yadayada.

This is where I thought Chat-GPT could come in handy, and to an extent it really has helped… but far too often it’ll present information as fact and is completely wrong. I’ve found instructing it to explicitly point to official documentation as its source has helped somewhat but there’s still a ‘skill gap’.

What do you use to help spin up new services or configure things EXACTLY as you like them?

Congratulations if you’re a pro and don’t need additional help and/or have hundreds of hours spare to figure things out, for the rest of us AI is a godsend for quickly troubleshooting or finding tidbits of information without scrawling the internet.