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Posted by websku 1/11/2026

CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun(fulghum.io)
775 points | 549 commentspage 11
khalic 1/12/2026|
To the tailscale promotion team: can you guys please dial it back? The half hidden ads are seriously annoying
stuaxo 1/12/2026||
Is everyone just running claude code not even in a container, letting it go wild and change stuff?
raxxorraxor 1/12/2026|
I use Cursor and quickly let it run pretty wild. Claude doesn't seem to mind to extract auth info from everywhere. Cursor usually blacklists some files for AI access depending on language and environment, but Claude just queries environment variables without even simulating a bad conscience. Probably info that gets extracted by the next programmer using it. Well, whoops...
sgt 1/12/2026||
Try Claude and LVM, Linux software RAID and partitions though, it's hilariously bad at it.
larodi 1/12/2026||
System Concierge, not sysadmin.
HeartofCPU 1/12/2026||
Great until Claude decides to delete your storage and all your containers are gone
Fokamul 1/12/2026||
>Your home server's new sysadmin: Claude Code

Lol, no thank you. Btw do your knees hurt?

krupan 1/12/2026||
Oh my gosh, everything you want to host comes with a docker compose file that requires you to tweak maybe two settings. Caddy as your web proxy has the absolute simplest setup possible. You don't need AI to help you with this. You got this. You want to make sure you understand the basics so you (or your LLM doesn't do anything brain dead stupid). It's not that hard, you can do it!
tomashubelbauer 1/12/2026||
I have a love-hate relationship with Home Assistant. I love its mission and I love it in spirit, but whenever I need to add or change something in it, I don't love the process. Without disparaging the work already done on improving it in recent years, I still find the UI and UX to be lacking. Claude Code has been shifting my perception much closer to the love end of the axis, because it allows me to side-step the boring parts of managing my Home Assistant instance and it is able to carry out the changes I want very reliably.

I still struggle with letting go of writing code and becoming only a full-time reviewer when it comes to AI agents doing programming, but I don't struggle in the slightest with assuming the position of a reviewer of the changes CC does to my HA instance, delegating all the work to it. The progress I made on making my house smart and setting up my dashboards has skyrocketed compared to before I started using CC to manage HA via its REST and WS APIs.

oulipo2 1/12/2026||
I would also suggest the great Karakeep for read-it-later :)
zmmmmm 1/12/2026|
it's kind of fascinating, LLMs suddenly are making the Linux Desktop waaay more accessible, of all things.

All those fancy GUIs in Mac and Windows designed to be user friendly (but which most users hate and are baffled by anyway) are very hostile for models to access. But text configuration files? it's like a knife through butter for the LLMs to read and modify them. All of a sudden, Linux is MORE user friendly because you can just ask an LLM to fix things. Or even script them - "make it so my theme changes to dark at night and then back to light each morning" becomes something utterly trivial compared to the coding LLMs are being built to handle. But hey, if your OS really doesn't support something? the LLM can probably code up a whole app for you and integrate it in.

I think it's going to be fascinating to see if the power of text based interfaces and their natural compatibility with LLMs transfers over into an upswing in open source operating systems.

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