I did my master's in AI. The part I enjoy most, though, is the stuff underneath: servers, networks, and working out why something broke at 2am.
The homelab
I run a homelab and it's where I learn the most. When something breaks there, nobody hands me the answer. I find out why, fix it, and if it keeps happening I write something so I don't have to fix it by hand again.
lazarus came from restarting the same service too many times. net-triage came from reading logs to work out what broke. agent-budget came from wanting to know what my LLM tools were costing me.
The CCNA
I'm studying for the CCNA because I don't want the network to be a black box. I want to know how a packet gets from one machine to another, what a switch is doing, and how subnets split things up. Subnetting drills are boring, but everything else sits on top of them.
And AI
I still use AI every day. It makes me faster, especially in languages I'm less used to. Deciding what to build, keeping it small and making sure it's safe to run on my own machines is still on me.