Comment by BatteryMountain
2 days ago
The crazy part is, once you have it setup and adapted your workflow, you start to notice all sorts of other "small" things:
claude can call ssh and do system admin tasks. It works amazingly well. I have 3 VM's, which depends on each other (proxmox with openwrt, adguard, unbound), and claude can prove to me that my dns chains works perfectly, my firewalls are perfect etc as claude can ssh into each. Setting up services, diagnosing issues, auditing configs... you name it. Just awesome.
claude can call other sh scripts on the machine, so over time, you can create a bunch of scripts that lets claude one shot certain tasks that would normally eat tokens. It works great. One script per intention - don't have a script do more than one thing.
claude can call the compiler, run the debug executable and read the debug logs.. in real time. So claude can read my android apps debug stream via adb.. or my C# debug console because claude calls the compiler, not me. Just ask it to do it and it will diagnose stuff really quickly.
It can also analyze your db tables (give it readonly sql access), look at the application code and queries, and diagnose performance issues.
The opportunities are endless here. People need to wake up to this.
> claude can call ssh and do system admin tasks
Claude set up a Raspberry Pi with a display and conference audio device for me to use as an Alexa replacement tied to Home Assistant.
I gave it an ssh key and gave it root.
Then I told it what I wanted, and it did. It asked for me to confirm certain things, like what I could see on screen, whether I could hear the TTS etc. (it was a bit of a surprise when it was suddenly talking to me while I was minding my own business).
It configured everything, while keeping a meticulous log that I can point it at if I want to set up another device, and eventually turn into a runbook if I need to.
I have a /fix-ci-build slash command that instructs Claude how to use `gh` to get the latest build from that specific project's Github Actions and get the logs for the build
In addition there are instructions on how and where to push the possible fixes and how to check the results.
I've yet to encounter a build failure it couldn't fix automatically.