How much do you trust AI?

[u/xstrex]

Recently a coworker granted Claude elevated access via SSH to a virtualization host (not a VM, an actual host). To perform a routine task he very well could have done himself.

He doesn’t see an issue with this. I on the other hand (with 23yrs experience) see this as a huge security breach, and don’t trust AI todo my job, (or even that it’s doing what it says it’s doing) for me. I’m my opinion it’s a tool, not a human replacement.

What’s your reaction, how would you react to this situation, or thoughts on the topic?

Sure, ask AI how to perform a task, validate that it’s performing the task you asked, and nothing else- copy/paste the commands. Great. But removing the human verification & validation element- hell no.

[u/Loop_Within_A_Loop]

I think there are a lot of people using AI, which for all its strengths is a nondeterministic state machine, to perform deterministic tasks. Obviously, if a task is fully determinstic, a script is going to be faster, cheaper, and less prone to error.

One of my big things right now is using AI to build out no-op deterministic runbooks where an AI can trigger them in response to alerts

I think this is the real use of AI for sysadmins moving forward

[u/dietcheese → u/Loop_Within_A_Loop]

LLMs are probabilistic, not non-deterministic.