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Take over simple system administration tasks such as (of course giving it full shell access):

- install this nVidia driver and make it work with pytorch

- get this ethernet connection to $IP working

- schedule a daily cron job to make an incremental backup of this harddrive, don't store duplicate files



You've got nerves of steel. It can, and will, hallucinate sudo rm -fr / as a step necessary for configuration at some point (it's even easy to justify by, say, missing the mention of this having to be in a chroot or a container). Russian roulette with your data and setup on the line. Not sure I'm willing to try...


Step 1: use a filesystem that supports snapshots ;)

Anyway, if LLMs can write computer programs (see Copilot), then surely they can do simple administrative tasks ...




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