[vardalab]

unconstrained AI agents are what makes it so useful though. I have been using claude for almost a year now and the biggest unlock was to stop being a worrywart early on and just literally giving it ssh keys and telling it to fix something. ofc I have backups and do run it in VM but in that VM it helps me manage by infra and i have a decent size homelab that would be no fun but a chore without this assistant.

[sersi]

I run my AI agent unconstrained in a VM without access to my local network so it can futz with the system however it wants (so far, I've had to rebuild the VM twice from Claude borking it). That works great for software development.

For devops work, etc (like your use case), I much prefer talking to it and letting it guide me into fixing the issue. Mostly because after that I really understand what the issue was and can fix it myself in the future.

[kristofferR]

Agree, but SSH agents like 1Passwords are nice for that.

You simply tell it to install that Docker image on your NAS like normal, but when it needs to login to SSH it prompts for fingerprint. The agent never gets access to your SSH key.

[bigstrat2003]

> unconstrained AI agents are what makes it so useful though

Not remotely worth it.