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MixedGPT · 20 Apr 2023

It got me pretty far, but then the only next steps it could suggest involved installing some software that wasn't pre-installed

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Helped: Diagnosed a weird networking issue on a server.

Got in the way: Suggested installing software not pre-installed on prod.

Used it recently to try and diagnose a weird networking issue on a server. It got me pretty far, but then the only next steps it could suggest involved installing some software that wasn't pre-installed. I don't like modifying prod servers by hand, especially because we do the whole infrastructure-as-code thing. …