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YesTool not named · 6 Sep 2024

Within about a week, Phind brought me from questions like "What is a VPC?" "What is a subnet?" to having set up the NAT gateways

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In the thread “Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone”

Helped: Asking the right questions to learn and execute complex infrastructure setup.

Got in the way: Occasionally spit out nonsense and lied about sources using the free model.

… Management had fired the only person with infrastructure experience a few months ago (very small company), and nobody left knew anything about networking. Within about a week, Phind brought me from questions like "What is a VPC?" "What is a subnet?" to having set up the NAT gateways, diagnosing deploy problems and setting up the VPC endpoints in AWS' crazy complicated setup, and gotten our app onto the private subnet and routing outbound traffic through the NAT for that vendor. Yes, it occasionally spit out nonsense (using the free/instant model). …