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AI for sysadmins without the hype: Claude Code, prompts, MCP servers, log analysis and automating real admin work.
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“I Barely Use It” — Where $100 of AI API Credit Actually Went
A business AI assistant drained $100 of API credit while the owner swore he barely touched it. The real drivers: a 30-minute heartbeat, premium models on background jobs, and one retry storm.
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My AI Receipt Sorter Shifted Amounts by 2,000 Euros, So I Took the Numbers Away From It
An LLM misread credit card statements by up to -2,000 EUR. Now statements are parsed line by line with pdfplumber and the model only reads single receipts.
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My AI Agent Invented a CLI Flag, and I Called the Error "Cosmetic"
A daily AI agent job kept failing with "unknown flag --readonly". The flag never existed. Why agents invent flags, and why --token=x beats --token x.
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My AI Agent Only Saw 71% of Its Own Memory
An AI agent's long-term memory file grew to 70 KB and the bootstrap cut it at 71%. Two automatic writers caused it. How I split curated vs. archive memory.
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My AI Assistant "Stopped Answering" — It Was Missing Three apt Packages
A self-hosted AI assistant went silent on a document request. Not the model, not permissions: poppler, ImageMagick and Ghostscript were missing.
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Ollama — A Local LLM for Sysadmin Tasks
Run a local LLM with Ollama on Linux — install, pull models, use the HTTP API from scripts, and analyze logs offline without sending data to a cloud provider.
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Piping Logs Through Claude — AI Log Triage That Actually Helps
A realistic look at piping Linux log slices through the Claude CLI for fast error triage — redaction, prompt structure, cost, and where it falls down.
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Building an MCP Server to Give Claude My Sysadmin Tools
How I built a small MCP server in Node so Claude Code can run disk_usage and service_status on my hosts. Code, registration, and the security gotchas.
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Claude Code Hooks — Automating the Boring Parts of My Workflow
How I use Claude Code hooks in settings.json to auto-run formatters, block rm -rf, and ping me when an agent stops. Real configs, exit-code contract.
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Claude Code Superpowers: How I Brainstorm Features Before Writing a Single Line
How the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code forces a design step: one question at a time, 2-3 approaches, a written spec, then a plan. Install and workflow.
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The Sysadmin Prompt Cheat Sheet — AI Commands That Actually Work
Copy-paste prompts for sysadmin work with Claude or any LLM: explain commands, write scripts, triage logs, review configs, convert Bash to PowerShell.
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How I Use Claude to Write PowerShell Scripts in 30 Seconds
My workflow for getting usable PowerShell out of Claude: a prompt with constraints, -WhatIf first, PSScriptAnalyzer, and the 5.1 vs 7 traps it falls into.
Running Windows Server