people that actively move to a federated community because their last one got enshitified tend to be against centralized platforms and are hyper aware of the potential for enshitification.

What could be more centralized (and enshitified) than AI? It’s literally consuming content and regurgitating back to you.

vger.app on desktop most of the time.

Then we will shit … the enshitification exodus goes on

Putting my personal feelings about AI aside for a second …

Yes you absolutely 100% still need documentation.

• Documentation should be written by the same team writing the code, sometimes code can be left to interpretation and the original intent can help a lot.
• Documentation has a chain of custody. You can see who wrote it, when it changed and why.
• Documentation is deterministic, if you look something up you will always get the same exact response
• AI that answers your questions is built on documentation. AI cannot produce efficient documentation just based on code, it needs to be fed at least other documentation to know what it’s expected.
• Lastly AI is a grey field in the legal world. Everything in the enterprise world has to go thought risk/liability analysis. Let’s say AI gets something wrong in the docs and as a result you accidentally delete the prod DB. Who is liable? What happens with your insurance? can you be fired? Can the company sue you for damages?

Disclaimer: these are only my opinions and I’m not even a programmer. I support a dev-ops team in the field of cybersec.

I’ve considered it, but decent NUCs are much pricier than old discarded hardware.

I have a good source thru my job for tons of CTO hardware, these R230’s cost me about 50 bucks a pop, and considering they sip power they’re a really hard to pass deal, it sounds like a really good way to learn proxmox HA, load balancing and ceph minus the storage capacity

I guess I could still host a 10G nas on an r230 with a DAS, but my questions remain.