[c0balt]

> That should be quite easy

SysAdmin stuff is quite easy in terms of complexity to some sw stuff. The problems, similar to traditional engineering, tend to come from the rather high cost of failure.

To expand further, it's easy to setup a system but hard to setup one that's reliable and/ or resilient. It's hard to maintain systems that are not documented and/ or wrongly documented (outdated, inaccurate). It's even harder to always make sure everything's consistent and you don't lose/ damage data.

[jaggederest]

Yeah imagine giving an AI root access to the server with your production database on it. Now I really want to try that in a VM to see what will happen. Even odds at some point it tries to rm-rf everything.

[samus]

Nobody is considering giving AI unrestricted access to anything yet. Code written by AI is reviewed by humans, and I would be shocked to hear that sysadmins are considering letting AI agents execute arbitrary commands.

[singularity2001]

I gave GPT root access, so far without regrets

admittedly I recently added a soft barrier "for dangerous commands please ask for confirmation"

[ofrzeta]

Does it "know" what's "dangerous"?

[samus]

Username checks out!