Comment by carlsborg

2 days ago

I hope someone is security scanning all those NixOS provider modules.

I wonder if Claude could go from NixOS spec to actual config without the Nixos provider. The provider becomes a natural language description and some links to the docs/source code and then a verifier is all you need.

How is that better than the nixos provider? The trouble is the links to the source code right?

  • With the hypothetical providerless NixOS you'd get new config settings the moment the source code changes, without resorting to extraConfig escape hatches.