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0 pointstheshrike792mo ago0 comments

> I suddenly have the homelab of my dreams, all the ideas previously in the "too long to execute" category now get vibe coded while watching TV or doing other stuff.

This is the true game changer.

I have a large-ish NAS that's not very well organised (I'm trying, it's a consolidated mess of different sources from two deacades - at least they're all in the same place now)

It was faster to ask Claude to write me a search database backend + frontend than try to click through the directories and wait for the slow SMB shares to update to find where that one file was I knew was in there.

Now I have a Go backend that crawls my NAS every night, indexes files to a FTS5 sqlite database with minimal metadata (size + mimetype + mtime/ctime) and a simple web frontend I can use to query the database

...actually I kinda want a cli search tool that uses the same schema. Brb.

Done.

AI might be a bubble etc. but I'll still have that search tool (and two dozen other utilities) in 5 years when Claude monthly subsciption is 2000€ and a right to harvest your organs on non-payment.

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martinosis2mo ago

This is exactly where LLMS shines, but when you get to a larger project,for me everything falls apart since most of the time the application gets way to complex because the LLM try to guess what you want. This is ok for small project but quite bad for larger ones.

theshrike79OP2mo ago

Depends on so many things. Like the definition of “large” and what you’re asking the LLM to do and how the project is set up for LLM use.

It doesn’t need to guess if it has the tools and documentation available.

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