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Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by seemaze »

rprend wrote: post #95
tempest_ wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is interesting. Do you know of any examples of successful tech companies built by non-technical founders?

I think a more appropriate question would be:

"Are there more or less examples of successful companies in a given domain that leverage software to increase productivity than software companies which find success in said domain?"

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by chickensong »

So this is a client/server thing to control KVM via libvert and provision SSH keys to allow LLM agent access to the VMs?

How does the Ansible export work? Do the agents hack around inside the VM and then write a playbook from memory, or are all changes made via Ansible?

If Ansible playbooks are the artifact, what does features does Fluid offer over just having agents iterate on an Ansible codebase and having Ansible drive provisioning?

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by jaimex2 »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #96
Uptrenda wrote: post #89

About 90% of HN is now AI shit at any given time. I can't fucking take this shit. Can you losers talk about anything else.

As are 95% of YC funded companies https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E... I don’t remember where I got this link from

Huge conflict of interest there huh

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by pxc »

cortesoft wrote: post #76
falloutx wrote: 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.

One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…

Aren't most ads in scummy mobile games ads for other scummy mobile games, to this very day?

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

#106

Post by peterldowns »

levkk wrote: 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 do this but make sure to only have readonly/nondestructive access. It's extremely cool how well it works.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by peterldowns »

redfloatplane wrote: post #18
levkk wrote: 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.

Yeah. The times I have let claude off the read-only leash, it's gone fine for me too (with stern warnings not to do anything stupid, and a close eye). But that's not really solving the same problem as this project, I guess. From what I can see this is using a safer and more reproducible method (and not k8s native, so it feels a little foreign to me).

Opus 4.5 is pretty good about following instructions to not do anything destructive, but Gemini 3 Flash actively disregards my advice and just starts running commands. Definitely recommend setting up default-readonly access for stuff like this and requiring some kind of out-of-band escalation process for when you need to do writes/destroys.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by whattheheckheck »

falloutx wrote: 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.

If infirmation arbitrage is the game then it's now a race to distribution channels and trust.

Also what does society need? Smart workers and people who believe in the system... so where does that leave us? We need to make something that would better enable children to want to grow up in the world and participate. Otherwise were doing nothing of value and in a death spiral

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by JMiao »

cortesoft wrote: post #76
falloutx wrote: 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.

One of my first professional coding jobs was in 2007 when Facebook first introduced 'Facebook Apps'. I worked for a startup making a facebook app, and EVERY SINGLE app company had the same monetization strategy: Selling ads for other facebook apps. So the lifecycle of an app would be: 1) Create your game/quiz/whatever app. 2) Pay a successful app $x per install, and get a bunch of app installs. 3) Put all sorts of sc…

Hate to break it to you, but it’s still going on, just outside the fb app api.

Re: Claude Code for Infrastructure

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Post by verdverm »

aspectrr wrote: 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…

> By giving access to a clone of the infrastructure, agents can explore, run commands, test things before writing the IaC, giving them better context and a place to test ideas and changes before deploying.

And you thought the costs for burning tokens was high... let's amp it up by spinning up a bunch of cloud infra and let the agents fumble about.

DevOps is my gig, I use agents extensively, I would never do this. This is so wasteful

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