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Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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post #16

So... I already tell Claude Code to do this. Just run kubectl for me please and figure out why my helm chart is broken. Scary? A little but it's doing great. Not entirely sure why a specialized tool is needed when the general purpose CLI is working.

I've noticed a lot of LLM-based tools that are essentially this sort of thing. Just a slightly more specific prompt wrapper around the core capability that can already do the thing. It's so bad.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#32
post #4

FUCK NO. Who in their right mind would let an LLM connect to prod?

Many places have "dev", "test" "prod"... but IMHO you need "sandpit" as well. From an ops point of view as orgs get big enough, dev wraps around to being prod-like... in the sense that it has the property that there's going to be a lot of annoyed people whose time you're wasting if you break things. You can take the approach of having more guard rails and controls to stop people breaking things but personally I prefe…

Sandpit should be a personal (often local, if possible) dev environment. The reason people get mad about dev being broken for long periods of time is that they cannot use dev to test their changes if your code (that they depend on) is broken in dev for long periods of time.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#33
post #9

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

There are companies making a lot of money directly from software largely written by LLMs especially since Claude Code was released, but they aren't mentioning LLMs or AI in any marketing, client communications, or public releases. I'm at least very aware that we need to be able to retire before LLMs swamp or obsolete our niche, and don't want to invite competition.

Outside of tech companies, I think this is extremely common.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#34
post #9

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

Someone on HN pointed out how all the LLM companies are basically going “we made this thing, can y'all please find the billion dollar application for it?” and that really made a lot of things - namely why I’m frequently raising an eyebrow at these tools and the vague promises/demand that we use them - click into place.

Don’t get me wrong, I have found uses for various AI tools. But nothing consistent and daily yet, aside from AI audio repair tools and that’s not really the same thing.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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That is the problem with software developers with expertise in software, but no deep domain knowledge outside the CS world.

It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.

For problems that can be solved with only a small amount of simple code that is true. However software can become very complex and the larger/more complex the problem is the more important software developers are. It quickly becomes easier to teach software developers enough of your domain than to teach domain experts software.

In a complex project the hard parts about software are harder than the hard parts about the domain.

I've seen the type of code electrical engineers write (at least as hard a domain as software). They can write code, but it isn't good.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#36
post #16

So... I already tell Claude Code to do this. Just run kubectl for me please and figure out why my helm chart is broken. Scary? A little but it's doing great. Not entirely sure why a specialized tool is needed when the general purpose CLI is working.

Lol, that does sounds a little scary but if it works it works. Mainly I built this to prevent there being a chance that changes affect production. This is meant to be used with scale (say hundreds of VMs) vs 1. From a safety perspective running Claude Code with just a watchful eye would not fly in my environment, which is why I built something like this.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is the problem with software developers with expertise in software, but no deep domain knowledge outside the CS world.

It is my belief with some exceptions it is almost always easier to teach a domain expert to code than it is to teach a software developer the domain.

It is my experience that most of these business domain experts snore the moment you talk about anything related to the difficulties of creating software.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#38
post #16

So... I already tell Claude Code to do this. Just run kubectl for me please and figure out why my helm chart is broken. Scary? A little but it's doing great. Not entirely sure why a specialized tool is needed when the general purpose CLI is working.

I let it read-only and gitops driven and find it's really good and feels pretty safe to get it to PR fixes. Run it with no permission checks

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#39
post #25
post #2

Hey HN, My name is Collin and I'm working on fluid.sh ( https://fluid.sh ) the Claude Code for Infrastructure. What does that mean? Fluid is a terminal agent that do work on production infrastructure like VMs/K8s cluster/etc. by making sandbox clones of the infrastructure for AI agents to work on, allowing the agents to run commands, test connections, edit files, and then generate Infra-as-code like an Ansible Playbo…

Why would you not put a description like this on your actual website? Your homepage does not explain anything about what this actually does. Are you really expecting infrastructure engineers to install your app with a bash command after only providing the following information? Claude Code for infrastructure. Debug, act, and audit everything Fluid does on your infrastructure. Create sandboxes from VMs, investigate, p…

True. Tried to make it simpler but clearly not a good enough job!

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#40
post #9

All these tools to build something, but nothing to build. I feel like I am part of a Pyramid Scheme where every product is about building something else, but nothing reaches the end user. Note: nothing against fluid.sh, I am struggling to figure out something to build.

Sell the shovels!!
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