[Story] When AI Accelerated
Its 2026, and the machines are accelerating. Today, they have reached the era of complex network'd ssh command hell. My /buddy (as it cumples into dust post .97) look at me with watery eyes, unable to comprehend how humans could construct and exist in such a hellish environment.
My claude code is spinning a tail against a remote tmux, telling it to setup this way or that, while generating new command scripts to scp over. Its more baffled than the average devops apprentice, and it knows not what just happened; as we all never do.
Setting up a new server has been so normalized, we've all forgotten the old magic. Bash breaks, sudo doesnt align, chmod hates the current user, and that application you just built from source is causing the LLM to choke on the sheer amount of obtuse vagery.
I give it a wink, type out that 'it will be okay', then I blindly run the openblas builder against new the arm machine, and spiral it into a recursive reboot sequence. The LLM looks on aghast: why would you do that? I give it the eyes emoji, then in italic-emphasis, I give it a whispering, "now its okay to rm -rf /".