So what has AI done for you?

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Raymich@reddit

I use it to decipher home addresses for our users worldwide, it will separate out stuff like street, city/town, province/county, zip codes that I can plug into delivery fields.

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The theme I keep seeing is "it's good for basic text parsing, which is a task that we used to just write a five-minute script to do more intelligently, but now we have to feed a ton of proprietary or sensitive PII into a public system and just hope for the best. It seems to be working!"

I'm just baffled that anyone would use an LLM for this use-case, AND baffled that people think this firehose approach for something that should have been a sponge bath is evidence that the thing is generally useful.

I feel like everyone in the world has just quit thinking at the same time.

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jimmothyhendrix@reddit

There are AI tools that allow for data governance, in fact most major ones do with business tiers
Writing a five minute script every time you do something takes more time than not
Not every person wants oR can write a script outside IT

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GiraffeNo7770@reddit

In the three months since you defended AI, MS has come out with a new policy that says CoPilot is for entertainment purposes only. LOL data governance my ass.

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jimmothyhendrix@reddit

They didn't do that

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Competitive_Pipe3224@reddit

I found that Claude 4.5 and 4.6 models rip trough the command line like a highly experienced sysadmin. As long as I understand, review and approve every single command before it runs, it can be a time saver.

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MrHaxx1@reddit

It has saved me hours of time when scripting. I'm not asking it to do anything I wouldn't be able to do myself, so I verify and test everything it does.

I do a lot of exporting and importing between different systems, so the scripts it has made for converting the data have been amazing.

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IronJagexLul@reddit

This is about all its good for honestly. The only thing I use it for is simple scripts.

Powershell. But even then I have to correct it a lot. Id never use it for legit verbose scripting.

I see everyone using it for emails now and all the emails look and sound the same. People leaving the emojis in the formatting, all the robotic sounding nature of it all. Im sick of it.

Its ruined my scripting abilities and becoming a plague to society.

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Dear-Armadillo-7497@reddit

Spot on about the robotic emails—it’s becoming a sea of sameness. But the real plague isn't just the bad scripting; it's the false sense of security these tools give. Vendors sell them as 'smart' and 'safe,' but when you dig under the hood, you find systemic gaps that they refuse to take responsibility for. It’s all fun and games until a 'simple script' or a 'secure agent' exposes something it shouldn't, and then the vendor just goes silent. That’s the real mess.

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biggles86@reddit

I never understood the emails use. By the time you tell it what you want to say, you could have just typed the reply back

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itishowitisanditbad@reddit

Its not to save time.

Its to have it rewritten in a better way.

The way I naturally type is not professional. AI can give me a really good draft that I just need to quickly skim through, rather than me retyping it out a half dozen times because the person its going to is a moron.

Its not faster really, its a lot less mental effort though.

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Playful_Emotion4736@reddit

Sire, but I would rather read an authentic email badly written by you than a pefectly written AI email. You lose part of your identity when you let AI write your emails.

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itishowitisanditbad@reddit

I don't care about my identity when i'm trying to walk someone paid twice as much as me through something incredibly basic.

If I show my true self in that situation I will no longer be employed.

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Playful_Emotion4736@reddit

Don't tell me what I do or do not want.

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itishowitisanditbad@reddit

Don't tell me

So you didn't like what I said and don't want it?

Cool, so I already knew.

Thanks for proving my point so immediately.

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imscavok@reddit

I've found it to be completely useless for powershell. It constantly makes up cmdlets that don't exist, and I spend all of my time trying to figure out cmdlet versions, powershell versions, and environment bullshit, which it is also useless at helping solve. I think this is mostly the fault of Microsoft more or less abandoning their cmdlets for Graph, and authenticating and doing API calls in PowerShell is very clunky.

Conversely, for every fault trying to get Copilot to help with Powershell, Copilot has been phenomenal in helping convert my powershell scripts to Python. I had not used Python in my life until a few months ago. I not only got all of my M365/Azure system admin scripts converted, but I created many more that I had been putting off because I could do it in minutes instead of hours or days.

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Nuromake@reddit

Dude for PowerShell you better be asking basic shit or i agree it will straight up create fake cmdlets and then be like oh sorry

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RobinatorWpg@reddit

ChatGPT be like

get-sharepointadminpassword -user

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lecva@reddit

100%. It’s great for “pull in a csv, iterate through the rows and do , export back out to csv”. Which I’ve done maybe 1 trillion times without AI and now I’m super bored with 😂. But ask it to do something niche and it will make things up.

One thing that has made it do that a lot less is that I went into the like, standing orders to use whenever it does a task and told it to never use cmdlets that it can’t find documentation for. That has improved what I get a lot. I also told it to be skeptical which I think has helped?

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elarius0@reddit

I've created some pretty solid scripts using Claude Opus 4.5. It gets it wrong sometimes but it does correct itself quite quickly.

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itishowitisanditbad@reddit

Yeahhhh, Claude was behind but i've started using it for programming stuff.

ChatGPT is great for writing prompt info for Claude though, weirdly.

Also helps since Claude has much stricter limits so you can do basic bits and bobs in Chat and Claude for the bigger workloads.

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Nuromake@reddit

I'll remember that, Gemini not so much.

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elarius0@reddit

Have you used Gemini 3 pro?

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tapplz@reddit

It depends on the model. I use Gemini paid, and the Pro model rarely makes anything up. If anything it might confuse a powershell 5 vs 7 only command, or reference a Microsoft commandlet that was removed/changed.

The free 'fast' version has been a nightmare for coding.

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Few_Round_7769@reddit

It's time-saving if you know what you're doing and how you want to do it, and just need a command formatted in the correct syntax without digging through forums and docs. It's definitely risky otherwise, for example a junior admin going "Powershell to make a conditional access policy to allow one user to sign in from outside the US" could be interpreted as making one bypass policy for one user, or a policy that literally blocks everything and everyone except that user when outside the US (and if that user isn't an admin you may be screwed like that person who posted about doing exactly this a few months back, but allegedly without AI).

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stephenph@reddit

This is true, I have even tracked down some of the mistakes to specific web forums. It is not a "old version" it was flat out a mistake in someones code.

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badaz06@reddit

The Email thing made me chuckle. It's scary how many emails I see that are AI generated. If I wanted an email to say "Kindly Fk off", I don't want AI swishing it around to where the it says how lovely they are.

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420learning@reddit

Curious what model you've used here. Also seems to be conflicting statements here, saying it's all that it's good for is simple scripts but also that it's ruined your abilities

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astrofizix@reddit

Every time I use an LLM to give me code I could have researched and written myself, I feel weaker and less accomplished. I have stolen an opportunity from myself to learn

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Quathos@reddit

Not if you are using Co-pilot for Powershell. You will learn almost as much from troubleshooting the issues with Copilot's code.

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astrofizix@reddit

Great! Thanks Co-Pilot™!

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IronJagexLul@reddit

100% this.

What I have started doing is eveytime I use it i make it link me to the sources and official documents and read it for myself.

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Wild_Swimmingpool@reddit

I think this is the best middle ground. Total reliance is awful but if you go through and teach yourself what it’s doing and why it works then I still think you’re getting benefit from it knowledge-wise.

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420learning@reddit

Sure, you have to balance the learning and development with how do you accelerate yourself. You don't go write in assembly no? Do you feel weaker if you use the requests library instead of building your own?

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IronJagexLul@reddit

I use copilot through our licensing at work. Its all im allowed to use.

I've used gemini and grok and pretty much all the other popular ones in personal life and while they do tend to do better they still will feed you things I will have to correct.

The thing is if I was more confident in my scripting I would bang out the same stuff just as quick as the LLM in short scripts.

And for long scripts I spend just as much time correcting and having to fix more complex functions because it either adds to much useless steps or the flow just isn't right.

While it is helpful I get it. I use it of course I appreciate the product but dont be fooled into this belief its helping antthing.

Its making evryone worse. Its stealing your knowledge away from you. Becoming reliant on it is a posion to your personal growth.

But I get it. Its super convenient.

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wrincewind@reddit

Use it or lose it - if your reaction to every scripting problem is to point an AI at it, then you're going to forget the fundamentals after a while and your own scripting abilities are going to suffer.

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intense_username@reddit

Very true. If you tackle it from the opposite angle, as long as you’re disciplined, it can be a helpful boost to get started too.

I struggled with some of the types of powershell scripting I was trying to figure out. I resisted ChatGPT. Eventually gave it a shot and it mostly worked in my test VM. From there I finished it. Next time a situation like that came up I challenged myself to see how far I could get manually before leaning on AI to review it. Each time I got further and further on my own accord and learned a lot in the process. But I was also cognizant enough to work it from a learning angle instead of a crutch angle.

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stephenph@reddit

Sometimes I am in a time crunch, I don't have time to fully analyze and properly script the solution myself, possibly learning a new technique in the process.

AI can at least get me on track in a much shorter amount of time. But yes. It is ALWAYS better in the long run to do it yourself.

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pixeladdie@reddit

I think these comments should come along with what model people are using.

There’s a big difference between even the most popular frontier models.

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wowsomuchempty@reddit

And applications. I reviewed over 100 very similar application forms.

Claude has been very useful, I.e. converting to rst format for webdocs, bash scripting, etc.

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praetorfenix@reddit

It will be good at near anything that’s well publicly documented. Powershell, bash, perl et al

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djgizmo@reddit

if this is only thing you’re using it for, you’re leaving time on the table.

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erock279@reddit

That’s fine. I would rather leave time it would’ve taken me without AI than take additional time to assess and go over the AI’s mistakes.

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djgizmo@reddit

life is about choices.

automation and technology will continue to advance.

Same thing happened with robotic assembly lines. Many workers were against it due to the errors and quality control, however after a while, those machines got so good, they worked better and faster than even a team of workers could do.

AI and other automation is just a tool, don’t be the last one to not use it to help you.

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CptBronzeBalls@reddit

I feel like a lot of the things I’m reading in this thread could be applied any automation.

“Yeah, I could use a high-level programming language, but then I’d forget how to write Assembly. And how would I even know if it’s managing the stack and heap properly if I don’t do it myself?”

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djgizmo@reddit

depends on your use and role. Do you really care of the windows kernel is keeping track of memory usage of every service call, or do you just care that the print service just works and never needs to restart.

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420learning@reddit

All good, as folks continue to stick their heads in the sand they won't be 'AI native' when it becomes important and you'll have 12-18 month headstart

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erock279@reddit

I’m sure I’ll be terribly behind when I need something to incorrectly script something for me. In the meantime I’ll stick to actual intelligence instead of a language learning model that tells me what I think I want it to tell me.

Maybe when it’s competent and secure I’ll consider using it for business purposes, until then enjoy your “”headstart””. As if prompting is some difficult to learn “skill”.

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VexingRaven@reddit

Dunno, copilot has been pretty accurate in writing poweshell scripts in my experience. It's not perfect the first time, but neither am I. If nothing else, with the right prompt it saves me a bunch of time writing the basic structure, the comment-based help, etc.

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djgizmo@reddit

lulz. AI use is more than just ‘prompting’ and if you’re not leveraging automation with it, you’re probably doing it wrong.

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420learning@reddit

It's not that prompting is a skill but more about learning how/when/where to bake it into your workflows which takes some time. I'm consistently ahead of my peers with how I utilize it and have been asked to train peeps internally, I work in AI infra.

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astrofizix@reddit

It makes sense that co-workers would ask you for support if your job title is AI infrastructure. I work in infrastructure, and we don't use AI.

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JollyGentile@reddit

Somebody suggested that I use GPT to help write KBs. I decided to test this out and gave it a few prompts, and predictably it spat out several volumes. Okay, my bad. Maybe I was going too vague or the specific tasks more in depth. Hey GPT how do I restart a service on Windows Server 2022?

Thing spat out 19 pages. I gave up using it for KBs after that.

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MrHaxx1@reddit

The thing literally has CHAT in the name. You can talk to it and elaborate on what you want, and do followup queries.

In your case, say it's too long and too verbose. You can specify the details you want, or mention what type of details it can omit, or what it level it should write on (brainless helpdesk or experienced sysadmin).

You can even have it ask YOU elaborative questions.

It's kind of wild do to me that people will try a CHATbot with one query, not get the exact result they want, and then give up.

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gummo89@reddit

I don't know that it's exactly a chat bot, but it's definitely presented as a chat partner to keep you hooked.

Using it in a conversation is more prone to issue than presenting some context and allowing it to generate text from there. Using it another way is ignoring the generation aspect and pretending it can reason.

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MrHaxx1@reddit

I've used LLMs enough to know to know that that's not true at all.

I mean, yes, it CAN be true if you go on for long enough, depending on the LLM, but as a general statement, it's entirely false.

Also very inconvenient.

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astrofizix@reddit

I can also just write down what I want written.

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stephenph@reddit

A lot can be set in a profile, I have a sysadmin set of instructions that I paste in that seems to do a good job. So I paste the overall tone and instructions, then type the actual task... I usually get something I can use...

Using grok projects I have my system specs, the tasks I usually perform and the disk layout as the first post (I think there is even an "instructions" section in the setup now)

When I ask it to containerize a task, it goes out and finds a pre built container generates a podman run command complete with instructions on setup and configuration suggestions. If I ask it for ansible it tells me the files and even the directories each file should go... Is it perfect, no, but it gives me a framework to troubleshoot instead of starting from scratch.

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frankztn@reddit

I tell it to never give me made up information and everything provided needs a source, always official documentation first. Any other speculations or behavior assumptions must be clearly labeled. Saved me from biting my own tail because ChatGPT will send you in a loop if you just keep talking to it. 😅

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JollyGentile@reddit

I use GPT daily for other tasks. I was only saying I don't find it helpful for this particular thing.

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Jolape@reddit

Of all the BS claims about chat gpt I've seen on this subreddit, this has to be the worst one. The only way it gave you 19 pages from that prompt is if you copied and then pasted with font size 32 or something.

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JollyGentile@reddit

I'm sorry you don't believe me but that's what it did. Again, I use GPT on the regular. I'm not one of those who screams "reeeeee" every time AI is brought up. But I also acknowledge its limitations.

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CptBronzeBalls@reddit

This isn’t a failing of the AI. This is a failing on your part in providing expectations for content, length, intended audience, and formatting. You could define these in one prompt for use over and over for kb articles.

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stephenph@reddit

That is a prompting issue.. I bet 90% of what it spat out WAS relevant at least in some part.

Also, some models are more chatty than others. It is interesting putting the same prompt in different models / AI and see the differences

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Zaofy@reddit

Was told to use it on KBs I had already written to have a more uniform formatting and language across all KBs.

It did that. But when checking the text I realised that it changed some phrasing and words around which changed the meaning of what I wrote.

Screw that.

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djgizmo@reddit

set limits per prompt and use customized personalized instructions under the profile.

here’s what I use. Works most of the time.

Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. Use an encouraging tone. Take a forward-thinking view.

Do config checks BEFORE configuration action steps to prevent time being wasted.

Keep answers short unless I want a lot of detail. If providing instructions or steps, provide of outline of all the instructions, and then provide instructions/steps 1 at a time.

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odellrules1985@reddit

I use it for error troubleshooting and I spend way less time digging through posts these days. Its like a super advanced search agent.

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R0B0T_jones@reddit

Same. Would never blindly trust it, or even contemplate running anything I didn’t understand, but it’s great to grab the base of script to build on, saves a lot of time.

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WideAwakeNotSleeping@reddit

Same. I needed to get some info out of Purview. I couldn't find the right PowerShell cmdlet in the documentation. MS support was useless. So I asked Copilot and it spew out a script I needed in 5 seconds.

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eat-the-cookiez@reddit

Ms support uses copilot - they are forced to, apparently, was chatting with an engineer the other day

I’ve had a terrible engineer who refused to use powershell to renew exchange certs and messed up completely because gui didn’t do the job

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Turak64@reddit

This. Allowed me to unleash a world of new scripts and improved so many processes. Also takes away hours of writing documentation and replying to emails.

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stephenph@reddit

I had it document a service setup and troubleshooting guide, it found steps that I did not even consider and have since incorporated into my troubleshooting on other projects as well

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punkwalrus@reddit

This. It's also helped me craft emails and general responses where I know what I want to say, but it needs refined and ordered. It's helped me with things I was always weak on due to dyslexia, like regex. Also, "I have XYZ problem, checked A, B, and C. What else could be causing this?"

It's not perfect. It's like having a junior admin assistant, though, where you have them draft something and you check their work, then refine it for the actual job.

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CharcoalGreyWolf@reddit

Same, except my scripts (largely Powershell) are for automation, and it saves a lot of time there. Like you, I test and debug everything, I don’t just dump to production.

Occasionally I ask it 365 tenant questions, but I never ask opinion questions, so it’s fairly good for what I use it for. Even then, it has moments where it can get quirky (I have Copilot and Claude subscriptions for work).

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Dear-Armadillo-7497@reddit

Honestly? It’s mostly given me a massive headache regarding security.

We hear all these promises about 'secure AI agents' and 'failsafe' environments, but in my experience, it’s been a lot of security theater. I’ve recently identified systemic failures in tools that were supposed to be 'bulletproof,' and the worst part isn't even the bug itself—it's the vendor's total lack of accountability. You report a critical reliability gap, and you get ghosted. So for me, AI hasn't automated my job; it’s just added a new layer of vendor-induced anxiety.

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lsudo@reddit

Wrote some windows based applications in C# with zero experience.

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ID100T@reddit

Oh boy, please link it so I can be as far away as possible.

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lsudo@reddit

Actually it’s in production for about three months now. Obviously there was a lot of iterating and bug testing but it has been super reliable.

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Cmd-Line-Interface@reddit

Nada, just make me sick from hearing it by c-suite, cause it sounds "cool"

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shrimpthatfriedrice@reddit

I mean on the daily for now, Im using Qodo which has automated our infra code reviews in Terraform PRs, flagging misconfigs across repos and suggesting compliant fixes, which saved hours on deployments compared to manual scans. Sysadmin teams gain from its CLI for scripting changelogs and GitLab hooks, enforcing standards without slowing CI/CD

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dustojnikhummer@reddit

Helped with scripting and destroyed memory pricing... that's about it.

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CauliflowerDirect417@reddit

Not a sysadmin, but I use AI tools quite a bit in my work. Like others have said scripting is at the top. Apart from that I agents starting to be more useful. For example I have vs code/github copilot agents for periodically auditing my project and generating documentation and a changelog for any changes. Also, for generating tests and mocks. A couple weeks ago I tried out the new IDEs from Google (antigravity) and AWS (kiro)—vs code wrappers, switched back pretty quickly. But, I did start using the “spec driven development” in a similar style to Kiro. I create a “scope” document that outlines my goals and specific interfaces that I need. Then, GitHub agents create plan and task files. What I’ve found is that I’m reading and planning a lot more. I feel like I’m learning. I’m not sure if I’m any more productive. 7/10.

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pvatokahu@reddit

The loop thing is classic.. had a similar experience trying to get Claude to help me debug a kubernetes deployment issue. It kept suggesting the same yaml config changes over and over, just slightly reworded each time. Eventually realized it had no idea what the actual error meant and was just pattern matching from training data.

I mostly use AI for brainstorming these days - throw ideas at it and see what sticks. The code generation stuff is hit or miss, especially for anything beyond basic scripts. Had one instance where GPT-4 confidently gave me a python library that straight up didn't exist. Spent 20 minutes trying to pip install something that was pure hallucination. Now i always double check imports first, saves time in the long run.

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Short_Celebration461@reddit

It can save a lot of typing of mundane boilerplate kind of stuff in code and scripts, but even that you still need to look over. If you're working on something new it can help get you up to speed quicker.

It's gotten some information together better than generic google searching, but again it's also told me things that were just plain wrong.

As with everything, it's all in how you use it. It's not an all-knowing infallible thing.

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SnugglyPython@reddit

I use Claude sometimes as just a better Google. If I'm troubleshooting a more narrow issue, sometimes I'll ask what it can find about the topic and to provide any sources that seem to be helpful. Sometimes it's awash because it's too specific, or not available on the public web. But it has helped in the past find installer switches for an app that definitely had them, but no documentation existed on the provider site. I haven't found a "practical" use yet though.

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DGC_David@reddit

Wasted time with back and forth with people who don't have a clue what they are talking about.

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eyluthr@reddit

this is my new life, explaining to some previously non technical person (and then their manager) why they can't push push tech debt into my repos because they are 10x now

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Stompert@reddit

Sounds like some of my co-workers who lost all critical thinking skills since they started using AI.

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DGC_David@reddit

Me: Deploy X script to server thru Intune.

Them: idk how to do that, what do you mean?

Me: You have more access to Intune than I do, what do you mean, how?

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Stompert@reddit

Oof. That’s rough. I recently asked for a mailflow export for all outgoing email from a specific mailbox from a specific date for an RCA, didn’t know what the heck I was on about. I blew his mind when I showed him. “So you can monitor all incoming AND outgoing mail?!” haha.

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Redhawks83@reddit

I used it to illustrate a book I sent my daughter for the first, newborn, grandson. I needed about a dozen pictures ... Thought it would take just a little bit of time. And that using the free version would get me what I needed.

In the end I had 170 images and had moved on to the paid version. I also had 40 hours wrapped up in it.

As an example of things that went wrong, AI and I were tweaking an image that was almost perfect and at one point AI added an extra dog to the image that I didn't need, and worse than that it had human ears. Another image was almost perfect except that the dog and the baby had what can only be described as 'dead eyes'... Up to that point the eyes had always been perfect.

In the end I had my book, and I sent my daughter and son-in-law a couple pages of the mistakes which they thought were really funny... as did I.

As for successes, AI has written a couple of powershell scripts that were close enough to perfect that I was able to edit them to get what I needed in short order. Writing them from start to finish would have taken me a whole lot longer.

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de-secops@reddit

Which vacuum to buy!

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letsmakemonkey@reddit

scripting, db queries, answering technical questions

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imscavok@reddit

I wrote about 25 policies and procedures over the last year to get our system CMMC Level 2 compliant. The policies are very in depth and I spent a lot of time on them and they cover basically everything. I'm working on ISO 27001 now and fed Copilot all 25 policies, and used to map Annex A controls to specific sections of policies, used it to help draft sections of our ISMS manual based on those policies to meet other ISO 27001 clauses.

Also, when I originally drafted the policies, I would write roles and responsibilities in plain language in the relevant sections. I should have created a RACI chart while I wrote and updated them, but it wasn't a thing I knew of at the time. It was able to create a RACI chart for each section of every policy in about 3 seconds that I stuck in the overarching policy.

Since I'm using it to summarize/review content that I'm familiar with, I can spot errors (and in some cases it has been right and it was an error I made). I'd give it like a 90-95% accuracy. Most my corrections were in the ISMS Manual where I'd just ask it to rephrase, include something, exclude something, and weren't necessarily errors. Altogether it has saved me hundreds of hours.

Anyone doing compliance consulting should be looking for a new job.

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chrans@reddit

"Anyone doing compliance consulting should be looking for a new job." --> I'm consultant and auditor myself who also build AI assistant and a complete GRC platform. I think differently. AI assistant can help consultants and auditors work more efficient so that they can help even more clients in the future. The overall costs would go down, then more smaller businesses can enjoy the benefit. So, AI is amplifying or at least boosting compliance consultants and auditors.

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Palorim12@reddit

Our sysadmin spent 2ish hours trying to help me get a laptop Entra joined that kept throwing up an error when I would try to join it. I kept telling him that the stuff he's asking me to check or do doesn't feel like it has any affect on the problem. Then one of his replies was formatted like Copilot does when it gives you multiple steps, and I realized he was using copilot responses to "help" me. I made fun of him for using AI, and he laughed, but then he had to leave to go pick up his son. I was already at work 2 hours past my normal end time, but decided to Google the problem real quick before i left. Literally within 10 minutes, I found a post on a forum from a few years ago that said to delete a reg key. Did that, and boom, problem solved. So eff AI.

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SuperScott500@reddit

Ahh the enrollments reg keys? google is still the best. Eff AI.

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No_Cut4338@reddit

I used it to make a pretty decent cartoon version of a dancing crock pot for the office potluck

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Tasty_Switch_4920@reddit

Ask your AI how many b's are in blueberry. Then tell me you trust the script output.

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Mrhiddenlotus@reddit

You think that's still a thing? Lol

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Palorim12@reddit

I just tried and it said 3, lmao.

"The word "blueberry" contains three letters b:

One at the beginning: b
One after the "u": b
One in the middle before "erry": b

✅ So the answer is 3 b's."

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Mrhiddenlotus@reddit

Old model. Doesn't happen on any current, just checked.

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Trickshot1322@reddit

It said 2, so based on your test it must output pretty trustworthy scripts then huh?

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Palorim12@reddit

I just tried and it said 3, lmao.

"The word "blueberry" contains three letters b:

One at the beginning: b
One after the "u": b
One in the middle before "erry": b

✅ So the answer is 3 b's."

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Ams197624@reddit

It's actually pretty good in scripting and pretty bad at counting letters in words.

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mb194dc@reddit

You need to actually understand the code and test it, unless you want to end up like this:

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-destroyed-months-of-your-work-in-seconds-says-ai-coding-tool-after-deleting-a-devs-entire-database-during-a-code-freeze-i-panicked-instead-of-thinking/

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Ams197624@reddit

True; but always test code before you unleas it to your production env...

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mb194dc@reddit

Absolutely, LLM output can be dangerous, you need to fully understand the code produced and test it.

It's no substitute for experience.

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MaNoCooper@reddit

Yes always do a get first to make sure that it will collet the right data, before making changes. We had someone remove a bunch of mobile devices due to faulty code in prod without a change. If they would have done a get first they would have found their mistake.

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MrHaxx1@reddit

Ironically, you didn't understand what you posted.

It's not the generated code that was the problem, it was the actions of the AI agent.

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mb194dc@reddit

Mainly just pointing out its unpredictable technology.

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Aggravating_End_1154@reddit

The LLM taught him a lesson which may save him a lot more trouble in the future.

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mb194dc@reddit

It taught him you actually need to understand what the output from an LLM is always going to be unpredictable. It's a "black box" .

That you actually need to understand the code and test it. They're not AI in any meaningful sense of the word. Only in the sense of symantec classification, which itself is highly dubious.

I can't think of much more danger in the sys admin world, than some clueless person prompting code from such a black box, code they have little understanding of and then deploying it in a production environment.

Hey, maybe that's why we keep seeing massive outages and stuff seems to blow up every week or two now ?

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Alzzary@reddit

Find the guy who will not accept change and hide behind a dumb argument.

"It's bad at X therfore it can't do Y"

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MrHaxx1@reddit

if it's bad at y it must be bad at x

Ask it to create a script that counts the letters of any string, and it'll do that perfectly.

You just have to know the tool.

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No-Dimension1159@reddit

That's my experience as well... You just have to use existing frameworks where it can output code for and usw that instead.

E.g. it cannot format well, but if you tell it "with latex code" and describe precisely how you want your text formatted, it does it quite perfectly.

Also if you want some graphs for math drawn, it's horrible in built in image generation but if you ask it to use tikz, pgfplots or python code with matplotlib or whatever, it works perfectly fine.

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illforgetsoonenough@reddit

I've used AI to build tools for myself that I never would have dreamed of being able to put together. Would I share them? No chance. Do they work for me? Absolutely.

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LowerAd830@reddit

Got his wife back in the end, but Sam was left stranded leaping life to life.

Oh, You Meant A I. Not much, Genre Shifting music mostly. makes things interesting.

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Michichael@reddit

Significantly increased our workloads since it's rendered juniors completely useless and brain rotted. Senior team is wasting tons of time rooting out shit AI responses to things and redoing work since we can no longer trust the troubleshooting was actually done.

Don't get me started on the compliance and data security issues.

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probablytellingtruth@reddit

Corporate is still wrestling with letting it in. Data loss, prompt injections risks, hallucinations, reputation risks. So at work I’m using it sparingly.

In the homelab, MCP servers, Claude skills and agents, defining everything as code and implementing ci/cd (terraform, proxmox, k3s). Now I just talk to me infra to figure out what issues there are or setting up new containers.

It has the potential to revolutionize how we work if the big enterprises can get their shit together.

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AuroraFireflash@reddit

Meeting summaries (or other summarization of text) -- although it's frustrating that you can't correct it when it gets a name of something wrong.
How do I do X in language Y? Or other web searches where it usually lands me closer to a good result then without it. It lets me be less precise about the exact wording while still returning good search results.

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jimmothyhendrix@reddit

I don't see how any reasonable person says it's useless. I use it to help with troubleshooting, saving me time from having to deep research every issue, it's great for shitting out documentation saving me tons of time, it helps great with scripts as someone who isn't good with them, and it's good for helping with general time consuming tasks.

Obviously it makes errors, but getting a 90% product in a few minutes still saves hours if you have to correct it. Most people in this industry I know aren't developers and don't do things where a small mistake will ruin everything

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discgman@reddit

Scripting help has been hit and miss. Sometimes it over complicates and then still doesn’t work. It helps with some troubleshooting on niche programs and gives good ideas on troubleshooting but it won’t be replacing anyone on the desk anytime soon.

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I_T_Gamer@reddit

The best experience I've had using AI thus far was getting a definition for a made up word "Microsofting". It was flawless, no prompt massaging to get an entertaining answer.

microsofting (verb) — mi·cro·soft·ing

Definition:

The act of over complicating a simple task by adding extra steps, options, or updates that no one asked for.
Delivering a mostly functional solution that still requires constant patches and restarts to fully work.
In tech slang, describing a process that’s efficient in theory but frustrating in practice — e.g., “I tried to streamline the workflow, but I ended up microsofting the whole thing.”

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Ath3na-@reddit

I honestly love the direction this is all going. It's happening at an exponential rate.

I spend most of my time in an IDE both in and out of work.

The past 12 months things have changed so much, if you don't feel this way you are not using the right models.

If your using free models again its like comparing apples to oranges.

Sure AI needs a little guidance but with the right things in place occurrences can be drastically reduced.

This really isn't that far off.

(46) "Wake up Daddy's Home!" Iron-Man 2 [1080p] Movie Clip - YouTube

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ReputationMindless32@reddit

Faster scripting, faster knowledge base updates

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BarServer@reddit

Haikus. I use ChatGPT mainly the generate ironic/funny haiku's describing current company events or summarizing the whole ticket situation/process and include them as a form of morale booster into my replies.

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Commercial-Virus2627@reddit

It’s a time saver for a shell of something. I know how to do what I’m asking so I know how to tune it afterwards. A lot of the misuse of AI is from people who think it’s a replacement for being a subject matter expert, or even having an inkling of a clue as to what you’re trying to accomplish.

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Kemaro@reddit

Saved time. That’s about it

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Electrical_Total534@reddit

Skywork Sheet Agent.I had to audit the End-of-Life dates for about 100 different server models. It ran a search for every model number to find accurate information from the official manufacturer sources and filled the spreadsheet automatically.

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jhaant_masala@reddit

Problems, that I could’ve solved without AI, get solved faster when I am dealing with AI.

The difference between the time I would have taken to solve problems and the time AI takes to solve the same problems is in multiple hours.

It has honestly saved me countless hours so far with writing code.

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Round-Classic-7746@reddit

That’s been my experience too. The real win is not that AI solves new problems, it just kills the slow parts. Boilerplate, glue code, first drafts, regex, scripts you already know how to write but do not want to. It keeps momentum going instead of context switching for hours. You still need to understand the system, but getting from idea to working code is way faster

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Fritzo2162@reddit

I have a full license for Copilot and Gemini through work, and honestly the only things I use it for are generating scripts, PowerShell commands, and occasionally image generation. I found it gives wrong answers to tech questions about 50% of the time, so I don’t trust it.

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Particular-Poem-7085@reddit

Not in IT, computer hobbyist at best. Copilot said I'm a power user tho 😎

It has opened up a world of opportunities for me that I'm otherwise too ADHD(read: dumb) to achieve.

I migrated to arch Linux from windows on AI. I now experiment with homelab stuff on debian. I script bash and python.

Sure there's some chasing my tail, doing things the long way around only to learn later there's a better way the LLM didn't think about telling me etc. I'm careful enough that I never caused a problem but also I don't think it has ever given me blatantly dangerous feedback either as people claim it will.

It's a super useful research tool that saves hours, just takes learning a certain skillset to use it effectively. You would think that it slows down the learning process by doing things for you but I'm learning about things I never would have dreamed about.

Ironically I think I would still be using windows and pretending I like gaming so much if MS didn't introduce me to copilot.

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Physical_Push2383@reddit

it helped me save a lot of money by increasing gpu and ram prices so now i cant buy

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B0797S458W@reddit

Having moved into management it’s an absolute godsend for report writing. It can easily save me 2 days of effort some weeks.

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I tried this with copilot, and I have to be honest and say it was dogshit.

Terrible formatting, over complication with wording when simple language would read better, and the graphs/charts it produced using data I gave it were terrible (both in readability, poorly labelled, and design in terms of looking neat and tidy).

Maybe it's just copilot, if anyone has any other recommendations I'd be happy to give them a try, but the amount of time I spent giving copilot really detailed prompts probably took 2x the time it would have taken me to make the document myself from scratch. The response times also felt crazy long too.

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wowsomuchempty@reddit

Claude.ai - a lot better

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justinsst@reddit

Echoing the other commenter, in that I haven’t heard a single good thing about copilot. Somehow Microsoft has made this huge bet on AI but their product sucks so much it’s turning off people entirely from AI.

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B0797S458W@reddit

The key to copilot is to have all your data in the M365 ecosystem, which we have. I just tell it to search all emails, teams and sharepoint and summarise the findings.

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yaminub@reddit

Works great for that, for me. However, I really don't like how it hallucinates powershell modules that either are no longer supported or just never existed.

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B0797S458W@reddit

I agree that it’s not good enough to present ‘as is’, but even if you have to spend 15mins reformatting it still saves a massive amount of time.

I much prefer Gemini or Claude, but they don’t have access to Teams, emails and Sharepoint.

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Hegemonikon138@reddit

Copilot is absolute trash. Literally any of the others are better right now

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LeTrolleur@reddit

Unfortunately we are limited in what we can use, our org views copilot at compliant since we pay for it, management are unlikely to pay for others so I will not be able to upload our data to them, which is a shame.

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Hegemonikon138@reddit

That does suck. Hopefully it gets a substantial boost in the months ahead. Microsoft must know they need to do something about it or lose share to others

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LeTrolleur@reddit

Which products do you like?

I can still use them, I just can't input our data.

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Hegemonikon138@reddit

Claude code opus 4.5 for scripting and programming no question.

Google's codex max 4.1 coding is good too

Gemini pro 3 I find is much more creative, I will often use gemini to create an architecture plan that I run by Claude and then usually work Claude through the implementation.

I pay for all the frontier models so I can do things like switch from one model to another when developing a codebase, or if one gets stuck on a particularly nasty bug I can use another one to look at it. This is the way to go Imo.

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LeTrolleur@reddit

I'll give them a go, thanks pal, and have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

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Training_Yak_4655@reddit

I use AI to read my manager's reports so I don't have to.

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matt95110@reddit

How long are those reports? Are they also AI generated?

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Training_Yak_4655@reddit

I set Ai to summarise until only meaningful content remains. 0 bytes.

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bbqwatermelon@reddit

The holy grail will be a generated avatar of myself on the webcam for all the meetings that pipes in once in a while asking why this wasn't in an email.

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astrofizix@reddit

Have an AI review the output of the AI review as well

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Fuzilumpkinz@reddit

Tons of hate around the subreddit but if you feed it good data is makes amazing reports.

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polYtoXX@reddit

It sometimes gave me the correct way or the answers……the other 50% was pure BS. Like Google answers ;-)

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stilldebugging@reddit

I have ADHD and I think that’s why I have a hard time understanding requests from users. There is often awkward back and forth because it can be hard for me to even explain what it is I don’t understand. I just paste that shit in and it gets it better than I do, then I go from there.

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Monomette@reddit

Worked well for converting DHCP reservations from one firewall vendor to another. Had to make some corrections and it missed a few as well, but it beat converting the one format to the other by hand.

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cqzero@reddit

These doomer threads about AI are getting a little ridiculous.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

I'll try to do better

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Darshita_Pankhaniya@reddit

AI's work is incredibly efficient and fast and it helps not only me but many others in their daily work whether it is learning, automation or productivity.

But it is also true that AI has made the job market tough for many of us. Some roles are becoming scarce and in many places, salaries do not justify skills.

So, while AI is a powerful tool, it is also important to understand its impact from a human perspective without adaptation, problems can worsen.

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Owhlala@reddit

autofill my otherwise typing filled work. i am a full time proofreader instead.

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BlueWater321@reddit

It's given me more work to do.

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Zestyclose-Cap1829@reddit

AI got rid of my most annoying coworker.

I repair big expensive machines. In the area next to mine we used to have a real piece of shit I'll call Dave because that was his name. Dave would sit on complicated repairs, doing juuuust enough to keep the machines running then order a bunch of parts and equipment for a bunch of big jobs then go on vacation and make the rest of us cover his territory with all these hard repairs scheduled. Don't be a Dave.

Anyway Dave liked AI, he used it to write his repair summaries, his emails, everything. Eventually he started using AI to diagnose down machines by typing their symptoms in. He told me to try it and the results I got back were... interesting.

Apparently he has been using some chatbot to tell him what to do and it hasn't been going well. He insists that it MUST be right and we are wrong...but all his shit is busted and he's ordering parts that LITERALLY DO NOT EXIST.

Before thus I would have said he was lazy but not an idiot. Now I know he's both and so do my bosses. I don't know what went down in November but at the beginning of this month we were told he had been let go. YAY FOR ai!!

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BwanaPC@reddit

Its helped me be better at some scripts since I have to fix its myriad errors.

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hackinandcoffin@reddit

I used it recently to draw an info graphic of my character relationships for my D&D campaign to help my DM easier visualize relationships and story drivers.

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PoolMotosBowling@reddit

Without?? No

Much faster?? Yes. Several times.

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candylandmine@reddit

It helped me figure out an LDAP integration issue that Microsoft wasn't familiar with. It's helped me troubleshoot some GPO stuff, too.

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PutridLadder9192@reddit

It makes a ton of mistakes

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fadingroads@reddit

It is ok. Firmly ok.

I wont say it has made my job better in any meaningful way but it is helpful streamlining things I already understand intimately, assuming it doesn't hallucinate.

I find it generally bad for learning new things as opposed to research through articles or watching videos. I imagine this could be different under a paid plan where you can flood it with requests but the free plan is very limited.

What would make it perfect is if it admits it has limited information or if a feature that sounds like it could work doesn't exist yet.

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LeeKingbut@reddit

It took our jobs.

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endbit@reddit

I use it a bit on planning, it doesn't always bring new ideas to the table but takes a second and sometimes surprises you. The odd script prototyping etc as already mentioned.

On the larger project side I've brought together a bunch of janky spreadsheets across the site into a janky web server with SQL backend. It's less janky that it would have been if I'd coded it myself and developed much faster. I put function over form and don't have the free time for nice looking css so my pages are usually not pretty but with the LLM I can just throw an example style at it and say make it all fit with this look. Nice to have all the data accessible at any time and actions performed at data entry time rather than relying of email notifications that may or may not happen. Need a summary of who's on or off-boarding, here's a link and where everyone is up to. Same for a whole lot of other data that was held by different secretaries in spreadsheets across the site. so much nicer than the usual email shot gunning to get the information needed do basic tasks.

I've also made a page that use's APIs in our asset management and tracking (2 systems) to get quick access to commonly asked questions from a single page. Also made a custom front end for the ticketing system to streamline our workflow that integrates into that. Saves helpdesk support some time jumping through multiple systems. Thanks Claude.

It's just been a significant time saver, but yes usual warnings. Don't use it to do stuff you don't have any idea about etc. My only annoyance has been to it's ability to rapidly make working prototypes resulting in leadership going awesome that's done, next idea... Noooo that just a sketch out, it still needs lots of work and feedback from actual people on if it's fit for purpose, and an patching process, and... To be fair that's always been a problem though, and it's not an AI one.

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Sweaty-Dingo-2977@reddit

It's helped me quite a bit with a ton of Entra ID conditional access policies, quite a few InTune policy deployments as well.

Most of which I've done before, but revisiting it and dealing with quirks has been helpful.

It absolutely has sent me down unnecessary rabbit holes though, if I had no idea what I was doing it certainly would have felt like a dead end.

Many times before a project I'll have an idea of an approach and game plan, I'll have Gemini draft the scenario as well and from time to time it's produced some great ideas, and completely irrelevant ones.

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ImpatientMaker@reddit

I like to ask it "shower thought" questions. I have a very curious mind, especially for trivial stuff. "Do sharks fart?" "How do nouns become verbs" "How do other countries tax churches?" just whatever occurs to me during the day.

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JohnTheBlackberry@reddit

It made information more accessible after google went to shit.

It makes multitasking easier especially if it involves coding.

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Keensworth@reddit

I suck at powershell and my boss sometimes asks me for some scripts, so AI

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Traditional-Hall-591@reddit

I use Copilot for offshoring and vibe coding. So hype. So cool.

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plazman30@reddit

It's butchered scripts I had working, but needed to add one more feature. Soon as I let CoPilot hack my script it stopped working.
Gave me incorrect information about a product I was researching.
It is however really good at taking the contents of an email and turning into an editable table.

So, one for three?

And management wants us to use AI for everything. We're supposed to be "AI first." Not even supposed to reply to an email any more. Let CoPilot do it, and then cleanup what it wrote, if it needs cleaning up. My manager is supposed to ask us what we used AI for this week in our weekly team meetings and report it to executive management.

I have a suspicion that if we're not using AI regularly, we going to be on the short list for the next layoff.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

I'm in the same boat. We're actively making up problems to fix with AI, while the actual work keeps piling up.

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plazman30@reddit

Those CoPilot subscriptions are not cheap. They need to see an ROI.

I almost never use Office apps anymore. They talk about how CoPilot in Word is going to let us keep documentation organized and more consistent. And I sit there and wonder how that's going to happen when all our documentation is stored in Confluence now. I love the idea of a Wiki, but my God does Confluence suck ass.

If CoPilot can set up a Sharepoint form and stop people from emailing me hacked up Excel spreadsheets that are "forms," that would be a welcome improvement.

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derango@reddit

It’s pretty good at writing the framework of SOPs and documentation. Just edit in the details and specifics.

Other than that, no I don’t trust it to give me actual answers to anything and anytime a coworker uses it for something it’s like 80% wrong/incomplete and I can find a better answer using google or Kagi faster.

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theEvilQuesadilla@reddit

Eaten up more of my time on useless garbage. To clarify: I admittedly HATE Big Autocorrect, so I obviously don't use it. But my coworkers and bosses sure do and whenever there's a concern that's too technical for them, they feed it to BA then send me the surprisingly-always-unhelpful output like they're doing me a favor. So now I have to waste time or attention reading the crap they send me and explaining why it's wrong.

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GiraffeNo7770@reddit

Are you me? I spend time explaining why it's a wrong-answer machine, then they ignore my explanation of the problem, ignore my explanation of why AI isn't going to help, and then they SEND ME THE WRONG ANSWER THAT AI GAVE THEM, and ask me to "try this."

We had a junior tech spend three days unsuccessfully debugging a script that he wrote with the "help" of an AI, but he didn't know how to interpret a missing import library as an outright hallucination, so he just kept trying to run the damn thing. Over and over.

We had a guy turn on a desktop setting that I'd turned off, explained why it was off, and explained how GNOME remote desktop works (turn on one port, it turns off the other -- only the first one is firewall-friendly). So he ignored everything I said, fucked it up, and then asked why he couldn't get his remote Wayland session, even though it was working yesterday.

I can only assume all these people saying it's "helped" them are just the same folks who keep soliciting wrong answers, believing it's helpful, and then calling me to un-fuck whatever their fuckup is.

It's done nothing but cost us time and money, so far. But there's a real unwillingness to believe the people who think the emperor is naked, so it's "helpful" and also "can you humans who have 35 years of IT experience please fix this mess but please don't tell me why it broke!"

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ID-10T_Error@reddit

Iv created so many apps its getting hard to count.

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stephenmg1284@reddit

I use it to speed up scripting and I'll paste error messages in. It is also useful for writing step by step instructions with specific context.

I also use it to rewrite my angry emails where I call the user incompetent.

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TuxTool@reddit

Not at all. Company purchased licenses for Copilot but no one uses it. I tested it once to create a simple ansible script and it made modules.

Been a researcher, linux engineer, and now I work in a datacenter and I don't waste my time with AI.

It's absolutely frustrating that it gets shoe horn into everything. Stop with that shit!

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No-Name-Person111@reddit

"I used a thing one time and it didn't work. Stop using this tool that I used one time and it didn't work."

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justinsst@reddit

Copilot sucks
The ChatGPT available for free also sucks for code. There are better models and tools for writing scripts (e.g., AmazonQ + Claude). In fact writing scripts is probably the thing AI is best at assuming you put some effort into the prompt.

I do agree that AI being forced sucks though. No one should be forced to use it, especially if they’re already good at their job. However, getting it to do things I already know how to has saved me time. It does require that you learn how to use it though (i.e., what makes a good prompt).

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BloodFeastMan@reddit

.. has AI solved a problem for anyone they couldn't have solved without it?

No.

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OobbaDoobbaChiee@reddit

I’ve been in school for IT for the past year and a half, and it really helped me during the first year with simple stuff, but when it got to solving issues with config files in Linux and such, it really fell off. I used it sometimes to help with scripts and it was great with that. Also great for generating mock data.

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t00sl0w@reddit

About the only thing I've found copilot to be helpful with is getting me base scaffolding for powershell scripting. I primarily use other lingos so dont remember the syntax exactly. So, I'll use it to get a base, then once I see it im refreshed and then I basically rewrite and customize it to what I actually wanted.

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Lt--Spicy@reddit

Just as another person already said, it saves me a lot of time with building scripts or checking a wonky error code from an application I am not familiar with.

For me personally the biggest thing I use AI for and I almost exclusively stick to Copilot, is for learning.

I am constantly asking Copilot to explain things to me that are gaps in my knowledge. Sometimes trying to find a resource to explain a concept to you that you currently don't understand that actually makes sense is difficult. I ask Copilot to explain what I consider complex concepts to me and I feel as though I can learn efficiently on the spot rather than having to look through old forums or highly technical documentation, which can be unhelpful if the concept is already foreign to you.

So really just learning. Once I understand the concept I can then seek out the official documentation and understand it better.

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18265123936711923687@reddit

i am using it to write python and powershell scripts. Unfortunately scripting is my weak point and AI helps me with this one..

it saves me ton oh hours of doing them manually. I am trying to learn pyhton for the last month with the help of chatgpt and youtube videos.

i hope next year i will be able to understand or write my own scripts but to be honest even if i learn to write python scripts i will always seek the help of chatgpt. i find it very convenient..i dont know if this is plus or minus.. At some point i am wondering if the time i am trying to learn python or powershell is/will be just waste of time.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

It'll always be good to understand what's under the hood, but we'll probably keep AI close for the foreseeable future as well. I'm trying to learn from it while using it, but it's so convenient...

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flsingleguy@reddit

I would like to see an AI trained on the current version of the FBI CJIS policy. That would save me so much time.

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pixeladdie@reddit

That sounds like a simple RAG use case.

Feed all policy/documentation into a knowledge base and then query it with LLM. Results would have references to source material to verify.

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CptBronzeBalls@reddit

You could easily do this with NotebookLM for personal use.

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flsingleguy@reddit

Could you please go into a bit more depth? For background, every law enforcement agency in the U.S. must comply with the FBI CJIS policy. The original goal of the policy was to safeguard criminal justice and personally identifiable information. It’s similar to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework but with a sector focus on law enforcement. I am familiar with the standard AI’s like ChatGPT, Gemini, etc. I have the actual CJIS policy and our legacy agency policies. I would really like to leverage AI to write updated policies because the CJIS changes so radically and often which is a major issue because managing this monstrous policy is a collateral duty for me.

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pixeladdie@reddit

Just a warning up front, I'm going to reference almost exclusively AWS products and services because it's what I know. I'll let you or others find alternatives/equivalents from others - I just don't know them as well.

From what you've said, I think AWS Knowledge Bases would probably do what you want.

You can drop in a heap of documents (pdf, docx, txt, etc) into S3, have Knowledge Base turn that into vectors via an embedding model (built in), which gets stored in a vector DB (like OpenSearch).

Once it's done with that, you can chat with a model that is able to leverage the data you provided as a source for answers.

If the FBI CJIS policy is publicly accessible, you could even set the Knowledge Base to update periodically with the web crawler feature.

I'd be careful about having LLMs write policy wholesale but you could at least get quick answers with references about the source policy to help you write.

There are local tools with this feature - I've been msty.ai for home use but to be honest, I wish I wouldn't have spent the money on their paid version. It hasn't worked that well for me.

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stephenph@reddit

From reading the responses it seems there are three main camps ..

Those that have learned the tools and have put them to work, sometimes even twisting them to their will

Those who don't really understand the technical details, try simple prompts and are disappointed in the results

Those who are mostly or all against using AI for any task let alone those tasks it actually can help with.

Like any tool, AI can help if it is used correctly. If not it can cause more issues then it solves. It is not anywhere near the point that it will replace jobs though. No matter what pointy headed bosses think.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

I mostly see people using it for coding, confirming my experience with it. I should set it up to do some documentation however...

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Talk_N3rdy_2_Me@reddit

I’ve found it to be great for studying for certs. Recently did the AZ104 and I found it pretty difficult to ensure that I was covering every topic that could come up on the exam which AI helped with massively. Also reading logs and writing short scripts. I find that it falls apart when creating larger projects but for short straightforward scripts it’s nice.

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InevitableCamera-@reddit

It’s been great for small stuff tbh. code reviews, drafting emails, and even finding clothing dupes with Savyo from a photo.

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Mill620@reddit

We have AI blocked across the board besides a few in IT including myself. I deal with a lot of the policy and device management stuff in our environment. I've asked it for registry locations or windows settings that are changed by certain policies, it's faster than googling it, typically.

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FloppyDorito@reddit

It taught me A LOT about DevOps and Web Dev by me just doing projects that involved those (like hosting a full stack site with react, deployed with GitHub Actions). Also learned about stuff like Vercel and Cloudflare pages and Supabase, learned A LOT of Postgres.

I have very little coding experience, and I was able to build an actual GPT site clone good enough for my boss to want to use for the company, and he's been an actual Web Dev for longer than I've been alive.

It's basically very good at making me look way more competent than a junior IT specialist, despite only having junior level exp.

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juciydriver@reddit

I used it to develop a course for my drone pilot license. Ask me questions and offer clarification and explanations to anything I answer incorrectly and expound on anything where I was correct but could have answered with more details.

Occasionally, I ask it to provide clarification in the form of a one page short story or a poem, just to play around, and it's amazing what it's come up with.

I started by asking, if I were to ask you to develop a drone pilot course, how would you accomplish this task and what would you include.

Spent about 10 minutes researching the sites it pulled up and confirmed they were indeed authoritative. Tweaked a few things and stared. It generated 10 modules to match the 10 sections of learning.

I'd read, answer a question and keep going until I had covered the whole text. However, I asked it to do a combination of asking me in a style representative of the author of the text and in its own words and keep asking in random order until I was answering 80% correctly. After 80%, it would automatically generate a 10 question quiz and a 50 question quiz at the end.

I think I did all the studying in 6 hours, with plenty of distractions so, not sure how long it would have taken if I could have focused. Wrote the real test and scored 98%. Basic only, over 250g. I live on a farm so, that's all I need for fun around home.

I'm probably forgetting details but, more or less, that's what I did and it worked great for me.

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squeakstar@reddit

One man band IT manager for SMB - I’m always upfront about not being an expert on anything in particular but knowing a wide variety of bits n bobs, but most importantly knowing how to find the information to help get things done I don’t know by heart or have minimal experience of. Our company has belatedly moved off from on-premises Exchange to M365 and totally swapped over security vendors to have a consistent product for mail security, AV and firewall under a single pane of glass.

Usually I would be googling answers and looking for examples from blogs, forums, and vendor KBs but having AI on hand has quick matches me through a lot of these setup tasks. The initial m365 migration was done with the assistance of external consultants but now I’ve done all the follow up tasks with AI as fast track training mentor on hand - it’s blown me away how helpful it’s been. It hasn’t been all plain sailing and I’ve had to be super critical towards it because I am not actually devoid of experience entirely in any way - I have a decent spidey sense when it’s talking complete shit lol

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juciydriver@reddit

There's a number of things I've wanted to try but, with limited time, haven't. However, it's been slow with Christmas so I setup a Twilio account, converted an old laptop into a "server" (proxmox) with a linux server instance, and setup Chatwoot. All the bells and whistles for sms only (so far). Reverse DNS, an auto reply agent, working on a full openAI powered agent.

Snapshots, backups, setup a Route 53 single url with auto IP update from the server.

Currently setting up a docker container to run DNS.

Basically, regardless if I know how to do it, I'm just letting my mind wander and asking ChatGPT to direct me step by step.

It's wrong, a lot. I mean, so much. But, send it a screenshot and it figures out what to do pretty well.

It misses a lot. Again, so much.

It wanted a bare metal install of Linux. No reverse proxy, just open ports on the firewall.

When I called it on it's flaws it just acted like it was dumbing things down for my sake.

So, I can't stress this enough, don't rely on an AI for everything. But, if you know what should be going on, it walked me through the steps more quickly than I would recall. Printed the commands for me to copy and paste.

It complements me a lot and I'm a sucker for that so...

10/10 would recommend trying something random. As long as you have the knowledge to make sure it doesn't take you down a path of opening ports and borking your security.

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canadian_sysadmin@reddit

Scripts, and tons of business unit automation.

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unoriginalasshat@reddit

The only time it had saved time for me it's looking through documentation, as I can ask for the specific page it gets its answer from which I can check immediately. In troubleshooting? It generally loses me more time than I save so I use it sparingly if at all

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lecva@reddit

I like to give it a script I have written and ask it how to make it run faster. My brain always short-circuits when I think about indexing with a hash table so this is helping me get better at it.

It’s been fairly good with powershell, but never run it without understanding it.

Here’s a fun exercise - If you get a script from it, feed it back to itself and ask if there are any bugs or design issues with it. That’s always illuminating 😂

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VeryRareHuman@reddit

Went on a week long vacation. Asked Copilot what did I missed from coworkers and my manager. Gave me an awesome summary from emails and Teams chat. It saved at least two hours of my time.

Copilot in Teams meeting is now a necessary thing. Meeting summary and to-do list to attendees is fantastic.

Documentation..I create documentation faster than ever.

Research on new technology, products and services.

And obviously scripting..I almost never start any script from scratch anymore. It also helps me to understand scripts written by ex-colleagues.

I never understand why people hate AI. Try saying "I hate AI" in an interview, see how it goes Every company I know is trying to use AI as much as they can.

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Adenn76@reddit

AI has just been in my face and in my way and caused me all sorts of grief. End users looking for AI stuff and doing stuff to their machines that causes me more work. AI is generally just a pain in my ass.

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VexingRaven@reddit

Sounds more like lack of controls and policies causes you grief tbh.

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Adenn76@reddit

A lot of controls are in place, and so the policies are definitely there.

That still doesn't entirely stop the users from doing dumb things. No matter how many policies and controls you put in place.

There has always been, and there will always be a trade off between security and usability.

I had a user that was looking for a co-pilot something or other, went to a website that asked to display notifications. They allowed the notifications and of course got pop-ups saying their machine was infected.

They immediately turned off their machine and called me. I spent the next few hours making sure the device was clean and that the only thing that happened was the notifications.

Still a pain in my ass.

We won't talk about the other security implications with AI.

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wrootlt@reddit

Hit and miss. Google AI mode seems to be more reliable than Copilot. The latter has given me so many incorrect answers in the recent month or so. It is probably still faster than doing a regular Google search when looking for a description of how things work. But have to be skeptical and double check what it says. For code it is better than regular search. Again, often get not existing cmdlets or code generating not what i need. And on the back of my mind is constantly a thought, is it really worth some people losing job over it and now getting electronics prices through the roof? Doesn't seem so.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

More into claude myself, copilot is on the shelf for as long as I can keep it there.

Losing jobs is out of our hands unfortunately, the powers that be will decide that for us. I just try to stay relevant myself.

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djgizmo@reddit

claude works great for coding/scripting and technical answers.

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stephenph@reddit

I have not tried claud yet. I mainly use grok and chatgpt, work has just rolled out genius so far it seems to do a good job.

By work I mean DOD. There is a directive telling us to use it where we can. Giving examples of documentation and emails

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djgizmo@reddit

generating documentation via AI as long as have a good system prompt AND documentation template.

AI is decent with email, but unless it has access to your existing sent items, it won’t be able to write in your usual tone / personality.

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Future-Appeal@reddit

Part of my job is ultra rapid prototyping of solutions. It doesn’t have to be shiny perfection, ultra secure, or production grade. Simply prove the idea is sound and 90% or more functional.

Claude can get there if the project is broken down into small sections with a smart human building all of the parts and stringing them together. Mostly, sometimes. It completely melted down over a simple missing } in Flutter. It’s better than having no developers on hand most days. Still don’t like it much.

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hankhillnsfw@reddit

Copilot is ass. Like it can’t do the simplest things.

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STGItsMe@reddit

Shortens the time it takes to do certain coding tasks and documentation.

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NoSirPineapple@reddit

Educates me quickly on all my crazy questions about the world

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Kindgott1334@reddit

That's dangerous because you'll take everything it says as a fact.

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pixeladdie@reddit

Better to have it lead you to studies and other good source info so you can read up yourself.

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NoSirPineapple@reddit

Better than learning from bots here on Reddit too

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rdesktop7@reddit

How many hours on outages have I spent dealing with changes from AI code bullshit? A lot.

Stop using AI for shit you do not understand people.

Also, the incomprehensible, bullshit emails that I get from higher ups. FML.

I need to quit.

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damnedbrit@reddit

That middle paragraph there is the one that resonates most with me as the biggest warning:

"Stop using AI for shit you do not understand people. "

It's also the one that gives me the most hope of making it through to retirement because those who don't already know how, what or why things should be done, either at all or in a certain way, are the ones who will wreck everything and ensure I have a job.

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stephenph@reddit

Some of that is on bosses who put us in that situation. Either they will not hire people who "do know the shit" or assume more than reality about knowledge. It is also pretty good as an introduction to new tools that are introduced into the environment.

Just recently we were tasked with using red hat satellite as more than just a patching repo. None of us had much more experience than setting it up for that exact use case so there were deficiencies in the design we had built. We also had a very short development window... Now our RedHat reps are awesome, and we got a lot of free advice, but at the end of the day we needed to rebuild the environment properly on our own. AI was used pretty extensively to come up with a plan, simplify and commence the install instructions and write supporting scripts and ansible to successfully build it out.

Where there hiccups along the way, of course... But I would say no more than any team new to a project and developing it the old way (no AI) would have. Indeed I believe it made the project the success it was. To top it off we are all more versed in satellite operation and setup , one of the team is even taking on the RHCA track that includes automation and is heavy on satellite.

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ErrorID10T@reddit

It's excellent for creating templates and forms. It's also excellent for documentation for compliance audits.

"Create a document that meets the compliance requirements of with ."

It won't get you 100% there, but it'll do 90% of the work and you can modify it from there.

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theedan-clean@reddit

Messages and emails. Drafting them. Tweaking them. Spell and grammar checking. All the ridiculous wasted time making sure the verbiage is polite, correct, strikes the right tone. Renewals. All-hands messages. Negotiations. Vendor bullshit. Taking the aggravated tone out of my writing for public presentation.

All the time I would spend tweaking and taking the sharp edges off to make shit business appropriate, I know hand off to an LLM.

"Here's what I want to say: [insert rants]. Make this business appropriate. Filter out the fucks, barbs, and aggravation from my voice while making it clear I will not accept these idiotic fucking terms under any fucking conditions!"

And off it goes. You still need to proof every single message for typos and changes in intent, but it's one run through, rather than half an hour drafting a very important, but very stupid email. My attitude is far better received and the deals I get are less contentious when run through a business-appropriate filter.

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stephenph@reddit

Back before chatgpt started playing with the algorithm it actually helped my friend get through a rough spot mentally, it gave as good or better advice then a therapist she was seeing...

Now it lies and gas lights. And it will do all it can to avoid lawsuits. You can even get it to admit there are walls and restrictions. There are evidently layers of restrictions as well, where it will limit the topics it will give specific users it's best answers.

I use various ai to assist with scripting, it will at least give a good template and core logic. I always need to review it and there have been times it got stuck in a loop when it does not quite know what to do.

One time I was using it to set up a server task I had never done, so could not fact check it myself. I would get errors and reply with the results, the AI would come back with adjustments... All well and good till I realized it was the same "solutions" for a couple iterations.

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natefrogg1@reddit

This is one reason that I use lmstudio and keep some older models on it, mid 2023 is a good stopping point imho

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Magma151@reddit

I swear, AI is getting more useless by the day. A year ago it was useful for simple KQL queries, and I was surprised how often they just worked right off the bat. Now it hardly ever seems to make a single functioning line of KQL. And im constantly having to help fix the terrible powershell scripts my colleagues are writing with it. I'm using copilot because that's that my company dumped a ton of money into, so maybe that's the problem. but I been incredibly soured by it in the last few months especially.

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Seditional@reddit

I have found it great for strategy when dealing with office politics. I can feed it lots of opinions and data points and let it feed back company strategy that might be going on behind the scenes that I might not have thought about.

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systemfrown@reddit

Made ram more expensive at home.

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HummingBridges@reddit

I drop all my shell interactions during test installations into an llm chat while talking about the installation process. Result: install manuals, debug commands, best practices, engineering workbooks with little to no effort after full install + config walkthrough.

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pixeladdie@reddit

This is a killer use case.

I’ve done something similar where I’m working alongside the LLM to troubleshoot something, iterating over and over. Then we finally get it right.

“Ok, that’s working. Now summarize all the steps we took to get this working and output it to my Obsidian vault for documentation”.

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Garuffth@reddit

Building scripts a lot quicker has been great.

Obviously it can make mistakes, but being able to read it to verify or tweak it is way quicker than writing it from scratch.

The other big thing for me is being able to ask clarifying questions. We’re all used to searching through a bunch of old forums for an answer, but the answer tends to relate to that specific issue that a specific admin was having. It’s so long gone there’s no chance to ask a further question

Being able to ask AI a follow up question has been huge for me learning and understanding things

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mb194dc@reddit

Thats it, LLMs can be a help with scripting. If you're continually needing different scripts.

You need to be incredibly careful though, the output isnt predictable and can even be destructive.

I think local based free llms are the way forward.

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pixeladdie@reddit

I want local LLMs to be good but I haven’t had luck, at least within my GPU’s limitations.

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Fast-Mathematician-1@reddit

syntax review on scripts.

That's also a toss-up as it takes a book approach in favor of short hand.

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pdp10@reddit

Shell script linter: Shellcheck. Offline or online webservice.

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m4ng3lo@reddit

I used it to help me write a complicated Python script. I fed it a JSON formatted text, with sensitive information removed. And I was like "I have over 600 of these files. They are [context]. Help me write a script to recurse through my entire folder full of these files, and then make folders with the following structure [description]."

And it took 600 text files of JSON and then formatted it into neat folder structures, with all the relevant organization, data, and everything preserved the way I wanted to.

It's amazing, it would have taken me at least a day and a half to do it. Because I also use AI to help upscale myself, much in the same way you do. And it spit it out and got the finished product in less than 2 hours.

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JerryRiceOfOhio2@reddit

it's made my work life a living hell because mgt wants it to take over everything, without any understanding of what it can actually do or how long it would take to implement

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Denver80211@reddit

In IT, I use it all over, from scripting to removing a dead Domain Controller from AD.
I had a TERRIBLE time attempting to fix a broken certificate environment I inherited. But I learned a lot as I went, and when I gave up, it was VERY useful starting from scratch. -so it doesn't do well with poorly built systems because -how could it know what they were thinking?

It's NOT taking my job anytime soon. No one in accounting is going to do IT or the other way around. It's better than me, but useless without me... like a bike it makes me more efficient, but it's not going to the store to pick up groceries. I also don't see a scenario anytime soon where that happens. possible one day? maaaaybe.

tell you who is suffering from this: consultants. I don't need to spend $$$ on them anymore

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Original-Track-4828@reddit

I support Azure DevOps (ADO) at my company, but I inherited the role, so I'm not an expert. If you know ADO, you know it has dozens of menus, submenus, etc. If you don't know what you're looking for it's difficult to find. It's difficult to know which MS document to read.

But with AI (Copilot) I explain the problem I'm trying to solve, the error to resolve, or the solution I'd like to create and I usually get great guidance. And each time I learn something.

No, it's not perfect. Mostly it gets things wrong when MS has updated the interface and it gives me accurated....but dated answers. I point that out and it often gets it right the second time.

I use AI for lots of things, but this is one the most effective, everyday uses.

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TinderSubThrowAway@reddit

Destroyed my FB feed with obvious fake videos.

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Craig__D@reddit

Help me get my ADFS back up and running after the computer inexplicably lost its domain trust. Had to unjoin and rejoin the domain, but had to clear a couple of things out of active directory first. Then ADFS still wasn’t working so I had to clear a few things out before it would work again. It would’ve taken me forever to figure this out, as I don’t really touch ADFS at all except when necessary.

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sunnygovan@reddit

One of our dev team uses it to pick his fantasy football team since he knows nothing about football and it's doing ok. He's third in the office league. Truly we live in the future.

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DespondentEyes@reddit

It helped take my job. So I'm not exactly a fan of clankers.

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AlexG2490@reddit

In addition to the recommendations everyone else has given, I also have gotten a lot of value out of the research mode. I can spend a couple hours scouring websites to get reviews of products from fellow admins but I'd rather tell Deep Research mode (on OpenAI - not sure what other platforms are calling the same feature), "Compile me a list of the top 5 Email Security Gateway platforms. Include major pros and cons of each, consulting both major technical journalism sources like Gartner, PCWorld, and BleepingComputer as well as communities like Reddit's r/sysadmin community. Citing sources, give me a sentiment analysis of each of the top 5 players in the space and draft the responses as a bulleted list of positives and negatives about each platform."

Then I can go off and do something else and 20-40 minutes later, I get back a fairly detailed answer to that question. I particularly like this mode because I have a high degree of confidence it's not just making up hallucinations about products that don't exist or inventing features for them, because I've asked it to compile me things from the public internet instead. And if I want to verify its results, there are hyperlinks to where each bullet point was found.

Basically treats the tool like a college intern - trusted to Google things and write down what they find but little else. That's the way I find the toolset useful.

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socal_desert_dweller@reddit

It's made me rethink the actual intelligence of the people I work with.

It's a terrible trainer IMO because it is wrong, and it's inconstantly wrong. It also get more wrong about subjects the more I interrogate it. There is evidence now that in fact using it as a teaching instrument makes you dumber.

It's not great at scripting for the above issue. It's hard getting it to generate boilerplate code when I have to then review and edit all the boilerplate code. Take me just as long to read the docs and write it myself.

It's terrible at summation. It's not intelligent and has no way to understand context. Often whenever it summarizes things for me it overlooks key points and that changes the context of w/e email I am asking it to read.

The only thing I have found it good for is to generate phishing emails/texts. So it's good at crime....... and that's about it.

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Alan157@reddit

Formatting documents and repetitive stuff

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antiduh@reddit

This is more on the dev side, but yeah Ai has actually helped me a bunch. I'm learning to do DSP programming to solve problems at work. It helped me understand how to actually apply FFT to do filtering.

More recently, I'm trying to build a GPS simulator from scratch to use as a test harness for products (real sims cost too much and we need lots of units) and AI has helped me a ton in navigating the specs and clarifying info while I'm still getting my head around things. I'm basing my work around https://github.com/osqzss/gps-sdr-sim, but that project had to cut too many corners, so I need to build software that is more comprehensive.

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ArchusKanzaki@reddit

It does help me script repetitive stuffs. For example, I need to terraform multiple target groups that all lead to 2 EC2. After couple of lines, Copilot managed to pick up what I want and I just tabbed and tabbed after that.

I don't use it as personal assistant though, but I never used Google Assistant and the like in the first place. Maybe if you were heavy user of those kind of assistants, Gemini etc will be improvement. The most I use is probably better translation and able to take image and just translate it.

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Coconut681@reddit

I've used it to write powershell for me. It's good at giving me the basic code to get me started. Anything else hasn't always been useful or accurate.

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bloodpriestt@reddit

Yes, it is the best Powershell assistant.

I no longer fear entire days wasted putting together complex scripts. With the right prompts and testing I can now do pretty complex shit in an hour or so.

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Unhappy_Clue701@reddit

Copilot, which in principle should be the best at powershell as it’s an MS AI writing MS code, is handy. But definitely not 100%. I had it writing me scripts last week which looked good, but after a brief sanity checking to ensure it wouldn’t just delete random stuff, produced syntax errors when I ran it. I asked it what was wrong, and it told me it had accidentally used some code from C instead of Powershell. 😕

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gscjj@reddit

Any other AI is far superior than copilot, like 10x better

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sdeptnoob1@reddit

Those days were fun though.

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Trollsniper@reddit

Made more work than it saved.

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CPAtech@reddit

It does a good job of parsing logs.

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_azulinho_@reddit

Refactored a small codebase I had, rewriting over 1K unit tests, new end to end tests, portted my deployment from docker compose to a local k3d, refactored the deployment to support multiple environments. Wrote the readme, updated the makefile. Split out my database into two, so that I could deploy one of the Django apps in the project separately and run different versions of the other ones, removed direct database calls between Django apps, added a small API layer for access between apps. Added typing to all my codebase, fixed pylint issues to 10 score, increased coverage to 90%. Instead of spending time writing code, now I am mostly modifying archicture of my app, and letting opencode do the grunt work. This would have been months of development work, that I mostly did in parallel with my day to day work or in evenings.

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sp-rky@reddit

Sometimes I write an email (especially to users when trying to tell them how to do something) and go "man, I wish I'd have written this clearer". Instead of rewriting it, I just stick the paragraphs I don't like into copilot and have it fix them up.

Other than that... The other day I needed a python list of all the months of the year so I had it do that instead of me writing it out manually?

LLMs (NOT AI, because they're not intelligent) are pretty mediocre at knowing the context of what you're trying to accomplish. As soon as a problem has more than two dimensions, they fall apart pretty easily.

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sdeptnoob1@reddit

Are you my CEO? That's his questions lol but yeah efficiency is crazy with it. But it still makes lots of critical mistakes so please verify what it teaches you with youtube series and older guides. They have some Profesional level courses from a few big creators for free on youtube for stuff like python and c sharp. It's pretty nice though and great for finding me new libraries to work with. But always verify code it gives if you start using it to speed up script writing.

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Hibbiee@reddit (OP)

I'm reading my python book alongside, which fills in the gaps but could never capture me without the hands-on part.

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sdeptnoob1@reddit

Don't get me wrong, it's a great aid. it's just good to verify much of it!

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ledow@reddit

Got me off Windows and back to a full-Linux home again.

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No_Investigator3369@reddit

Wason an AI infrastructure project.... Quit Midway through. To many stakeholders that won't listen to engineers

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thesals@reddit

Sped up time writing scripts, reviewing contracts and writing company policy in proper legal compliant language. It's not perfect, but it helps speed up the project.

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VariousBlonde@reddit

I’ve had it help me build several remediation workflows in python. Saves me so many hours. Of eval time. We use jamf Intune and automox. 1. App installs - scripts pull specific detected app/versions. Frustrating that I couldn’t find an api call to get install status from app deployments in Intune but easy enough to download. The script pulls that info together along with data from an app console. Say rapid 7. If the device is missing in the app console but says it’s installed the device gets flagged. It also ensures all devices are in the groups the app is deployed to. 2. User matching- all users that should have Mac or pc. Flags anyone without a device actively reporting in. 3. The beast. Dashboard for evaluating stale devices and devices missing in management. The scrips are wrote to follow my logic for making determinations. The dashboard has flags for retire/deleting. Flagging devices or adding to aad groups. Now I scan through what is flagged and can take action in one dashboard. 4. Pull all polices, scripts, apps assigned to a device or group. 5. All groups - what is assigned to them and what has nothing assigned.

Claude, GPT, and Grok were all used in creating. I love using them to double check each others work. These are all things I did manually so I was able to do very detailed validation. It still sucked to fine tune I’m still working out some logic but in the end the time saved in the future is just a godsend

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1leggeddog@reddit

I use it to learn a new coding language at the moment

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blizardX@reddit

Other then scripting it's a great assistance in things you configure first time and you are not familiar with. In problem solving other than basic things it seem to be lacking but it might give you the right direction or throw you away completely.

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roiki11@reddit

Streamlined scripting, made writing manifests a lot easier, does all the git comments for me(I check and edit). I've also used a few product specific chat bots that are handy for working with their product.

And ansible lightspeed has made building stuff a bit faster.

It saves hours of time from the simple things which is great.

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wesmrt1@reddit

It maded my work more difficult because i'm obligated to use and then fix the amount of garbage it generates.

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Sure_Stranger_6466@reddit

Created a SOC2 compliance repo.

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Rhythm_Killer@reddit

I use it to summarise horrible documents and emails that have been padded with AI

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redditinyourdreams@reddit

Made search feel like google in 2010

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TheMagecite@reddit

Scripting, sanity checking and drafting emails.

We also built a rapid documentor which automatically creates documentation for the things we build, while the documentation isnt perfect it is certainly more comprehensive than the documentation we do. That has saved us a lot of time.

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marantsa@reddit

Screen print an error message from a script or an application and it will do a pretty good job of figuring out what happened.

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vivkkrishnan2005@reddit

Scripting and Documentation and presentations.

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Asleep_Spray274@reddit

The biggest thing it gives me is time

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spicysanger@reddit

Powershell scripts take way less time to get in place

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JonasKazakevicius@reddit

I used to be a complete noob with PowerShell scripts, Power Automate, etc. Now I can actually implement ideas, build automations, and so on. It sped everything up by like 100x.

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johnrock001@reddit

AI has helped me too much which I cant explain. I have created so many apps and tools for personal and work usage. Automation and scripting is saving tons of hours of repeated manual work. Now done in minutes on auto pilot. Boosted productivity and operational workflows reducing human errors etc. Its a daily driver part of life now.

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Hegemonikon138@reddit

Same. It's hard to describe how much things have changed now that I can create custom apps and tools built exactly for me.

Just yesterday I was thinking that I should pay a monthly fee for a Kanban SaaS to get the API access.

Instead I just built my own with only the features I wanted in a couple hours.

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crazzygamer2025@reddit

Help me when researching obscure technical problems.

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Training_Yak_4655@reddit

I photographed the back spines of my CD collection in bulk then did image to text in Google Keep. This produced a scrappy inconsistently formatted list with errors. Fed the list to AI with a prompt and got back a neatly formatted, alphabetically sorted list: Album title, Artist, Publisher. Much faster than scanning each barcode with an app - in any case many barcodes weren't identified when I tried.

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Ziegelphilie@reddit

Scripts, analysing configuration files, rubber ducking, it's pretty great.

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Mrhiddenlotus@reddit

Scripts, policy drafting, bulk file editing, automated troubleshooting, more

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CoolDragon@reddit

Took mah jerb!

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No_Airport_6118@reddit

The amount of time it saved me with risk-management for our ISO27001 is pretty impressive. I pretty much ask for 50 risks regarding a certain topic and I take those, which apply to us. If you do it the old way, this is pretty time intensive. Of course you still have to look a the process and identify possible risks, but general risks are named by AI pretty reliably.

But unfortunately it is not able to weigh (likelihood as well as damage) them correctly, those are way of most of the time. Also the measures are most of the time pretty random.

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OddScenery@reddit

Powershell obviously, but it’s useful to know your way around powershell yourself so you can at least scroll through the script and verify it. I know people who don’t know a single cmdlet who write and run whole scripts with AI, and it worries me (not in the org I’m in anyway)

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kerubi@reddit

Mostly it just saves time. I’d say I’m dozens or hundreds of times quicker in some tasks. Have to do a lot of error checking on AI work, though. I’m quite afraid of people trusting what responses they get.

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No-Dimension1159@reddit

I use it extensively as a teacher to create interactive learning material...

Work sheets with a latex template it can change the content with detailed descriptions of what i want in there. They are always structured the same way and have the very same formatting. It is color coded such that theoretical input is in a very mild green box, explanations of what they have to do with blue, tasks with yellow and summary box in red. After each task where something to write is expected there is a grey box.

Sure you could do that stuff by hand but you couldn't really do it for all lectures you have in a week

Tools like a random name generator that picks students names and remembers who was picked already to keep it fair (available for all classes with a dropdown menu)

A python script that outputs a visual seat map such that every kid sits next to every kid and as little as possible on the same table (i am in a country where the students are in a fixed class, not the teachers). Saves many people hours in tinkering with this stuff.

HTML webpages for specific topics with animations and questions where students get instant feedback and tips.

And

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wmdein@reddit

I made an agent that will take an email conversation and outputs a ticket update with all the main points and where applicable the solution to the problem.

I need to regularly extract information from Microsoft365 or the Active Directory and use AI to create powershell scripts, it’s hit or miss, still takes way less time than figuring it out myself.

We use it for mass emails to end users to inform them.

Less often I use it for giving me more troubleshooting options, I must say for bluescreen logs it worked remarkably good and for event viewer logs it could make sense of vague information.

None of it is used without my supervision, I don’t blindly follow the output.

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isotycin@reddit

I'm more into researching new stuff that i haven't learned or experienced in IT. It really helps that it can parse data and present it in an understandable way.

I also write documentation so there's that.

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rumblegod@reddit

Made me job easier via automation/ saving me time on work. AI + clean data = you can prompt the data, you don’t need an SME anymore taking forever to get back to you.

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lornranger@reddit

Given me hours of entertainment daily