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VadimPRtoday at 4:06 PM3 repliesview on HN

Claude is also surprisingly good at analyzing system issues on a Linux system and solving them!


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moduspoltoday at 5:13 PM

Yesterday I had ChatGPT walk me through fixing my single-node k3s cluster. It required rebuilding the sqlite database (while skipping a few corrupted records), then clearing the containerd cache, and then finally deleting a somehow-corrupted Secret record, and then recreating it.

Without it I would have given up way earlier, but the infinite patience to keep slurping in error messages and continue to troubleshoot really worked out.

internet101010today at 5:03 PM

Yeah Claude is really, really good there. You tell it the distro and the problem and it will solve it. Saved me a lot of pain when it came to swapping out an encrypted boot drive and was good about emphasizing the order of operations required for what I would consider a higher risk/complexity situation.

PeterStuertoday at 4:41 PM

Not just Linux. Whiz at system management on Windows as well.