LLMs amplify whatever architecture you bring them. Including none.
<p>The ordinary failure mode I keep seeing in "LLM-assisted infrastructure" pet projects is the one a home-lab Zabbix operator sketched recently: the alert that arrives on the way home from work, on a phone, declaring that a port speed on a switch in the lab has changed and this is <em>very-very important</em>. Zabbix is doing exactly what it was configured to do. The configuration is the problem. Tuning the trigger thresholds by hand is the kind of work that never gets prioritised on a Saturday
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The ordinary failure mode I keep seeing in "LLM-assisted infrastructure" pet projects is the one a home-lab Zabbix operator sketched recently: the alert that arrives on the way home from work, on a phone, declaring that a port speed on a switch in the lab has changed and this is very-very important. Zabbix is doing exactly what it was configured to do. The configuration is the problem. Tuning the trigger thresholds by hand is the kind of work that never gets prioritised on a Saturday