My Philosophy Regarding AI Usage - Part II

Using AI Without Losing Our Ability To Think

In the first part I discussed about the downsides of using AI in a reckless manner. The focus of this article is more about following some good practices while using AI.

“Do I need to stop using AI?”

Absolutely not!

AI is a great accelerator and I believe that it can help us bring out the best in us if we wield it properly. I have my own way of using AI. In fact, the trigger for writing this blog came from this Youtube video by Don Woodlock. In his video, he states that there is a way to use AI which preserves our cognitive abilities.

My Philosophy Regarding AI Usage - Part I

This is a topic which I have been wanting to write about for a long time. It’s very hard to decide where exactly I should begin regarding my opinions about AI since it’s changing so rapidly. However, in this article I’ll mainly talk about how I use AI in a way which maximizes certain metrics. My methodologies may not be applicable to everyone, since I work in the research domain, but I still think it’s relevant.

Mini Update

Hello everyone!

There has been quite a gap between the last post and this (The migration post doesn’t count as I wrote it before but forgot to publish it). Life happened, so I had to take care of some IRL work.

However, I have been home-labbing quite hard. In fact, one reason for not able to write was I was upgrading and configuring my homelab.

These are some updates regarding to my homelab

Changing Or Migrating Your Network Backend

There will come a time when you may need to move your networking stack to a different machine due to a variety of reasons. By networking stack, I mean applications core to the functionality of your homelab, such as your DNS server, reverse proxy, Wireguard instance, etc.

I personally had to move thrice

• When I had to change the IP addresses of all my machines due to a weird edge case involving Wireguard
• When my Raspberry Pi was not powerful enough for all my micro-services, and shifted to a physical machine
• When I switched from a physical machine to a Proxmox VM

Every time I switched, there was always something or the other which I missed which affected my operational stability. But like they say, you learn as you make mistakes.