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NoClaude, Qwen · 24 Aug 2026

I’ve spent more time wrangling AI than I would’ve spent writing my own Powershell

stego-tech on Hacker News

In the thread “AI and Infrastructure Engineering”

Helped: Basic, repetitive, boilerplate work.

Got in the way: Building effective hardening profiles for local VMs.

… OS settings I have to understand and set according to security posture - I’ve been unable to get Claude/Qwen/etc to build an effective hardening profile for something as fundamental as CIS2, because it always presumes an AD environment on a CSP as opposed to a local VM. Believe me, I would love for it to do so, because this is dry, uninteresting work, but I’ve spent more time wrangling AI than I would’ve spent writing my own Powershell. AI is, at least in my realm, a neat tool for basic, repetitive, boilerplate work. …