I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself

Interesting. For me if I want to keep my lab stable, I have to ensure I pin all images and components to a specific version. I rarely but deliberately upgrade them (2-3 months). I feel putting things on auto-update is bound to break stuff and force you to spend time on it at the worst possible times.

Definitely opened this thinking it would be a story of handing the keys to AI. Refreshing, simple and to the point

> I've approximated it somewhere around 15 minutes of maintenance per month, barring an emergency. If that's normal to you, congrats - you've peaked in life. However, that's absolutely absurd to me. I used to spend days on end building, maintaining, and debugging various aspects of my servers, databases, apps, etc.

It's been normal for me for the past 3 years thanks to using NixOS for all server infrastructure.

No slop. Love it.

I suspect my approach is even more controversial… I just open Claude code and type /routine-maintenance and it reads the skill file, logs into all my systems on my home network and runs updates, validate backups are still healthy, update any docker images, checks SMART stats, reviews some logs, and then fires off an email using brevo to tell me any future maintenance concerns I might have.

Edit: zero minutes old already downvoted.