Linux sysadmin now doing big data type stuff at one of the largest financial institutions in the world here. In the next few weeks I need to provide training to some other members of the team on how to edit some configuration files for a monitoring tool used to check the status of hundreds of application websites. Editing these files requires root level access. None of these team members have Linux experience, but they are very competent at what they currently do. I am more than a little anxious about them having root level access to these two servers because the servers are critical for far more than this one monitoring tool. I trust my colleagues' judgement, but given that root gives complete access and control to everything on a Linux box, I still worry about my colleagues getting this access, even though I'm certain they will never do anything else other than edit the configuration files.
Unlike with AI, I'm certain my colleagues won't hallucinate proper steps and know what their limits in knowledge and skills are. AI is a probalistic system that can generate an undeterminable range of outputs given the same input. Although AI might provide the desired output most of the time, there's absolutely no way to guarantee that it won't at some point do "rm -rf /" on a Linux box.
I use AI on my job, but I don't let it have any agency on files. The only way I would do that is from within a VM or a container. I know developers who us AI and have increased their productivity by multiple factors. They won't allow something like Personal Computer loose in their environments. If you think that giving Personal Computer free rein on your stuff, I seriously question your judgement as a developer.
