[teiferer]

As an "AI" skeptic, let me ask an out-of-character question: Could such maintenance be automated or at least heavily simplified with coding agents? Looking over whether something breaks when gcc is upgraded, automatically updating if needed, updating best practices, automatically reproducing reported issues and proposing fixes ... too much of a dream?

[redfloatplane]

Yes, definitely some of it can be simplified or automated. I've been migrating various apps from a docker-compose to a kubernetes environment. Spending a day writing a solid prompt document and running some agent on the repos involved has drastically sped up my workflow.

The integration hell isn't much easier, but I spend _far_ less time actually writing configurations, yaml files, looking up docs, etc, which frees up my time so that I can deal with the workplace politics involved... actually, maybe I want to go back.