Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Privacy & data ownership

At least you recognize it. That’s really no different from before LLMs though. In fact, learning tech before was even more work, because you’d have to go read a bunch of docs to learn syntax, etc.

So for you it sounds like less a question of “how do I not use it” and more a question of “how do I hold myself accountable to learning a thing”. At the end of the day, either you want to learn or you don’t. LLMs are just a tool.

Personal projects? Frequently ask LLMs to teach me and then do it myself. Kind of like google on steroids because they can see what I’m doing / trying to do. Is easy to fall into the trap of “do it for me” but if you have some discipline it can be helpful.

Professionally? Hard to care at this point. Tried to fight for good engineering decisions but got vetoed for the sake of “go fast” so many times I pretty much vibe everything.