“They are paying me money. Should be legit”

You will still to track adhoc changes to different services or configurations that would then need to also be applied and executed in a NiX config in the proper place to ensure proper order of execution.

Do you mean to say that I can run random systemctl commands to make changes to the system, but in order to make them persistent, I need to add them to the config? If yes, this model is fine by me. As long as the changes are documented in files maintained by me, it’s good.

In mutable distros, the issue I face is that some changes are present in .config, /etc, ~.local which slowly becomes painful to keep track of.

Looks like the person using it have at least some idea of what they are doing

This is something which I have been saying from a year back, albeit a different form – “I only ask questions to LLMs if I already know the answer”.

They are not supposed to replace coders, but kind of boost their productivity.

This usecase is also quite good.

• It’s not critical; not many people are using QICs
• It’s not hard, but just boring
• No existing human solution

Would you like my custom xz tool?

The name is a dead ringer for a Bengali coder 🤝