u/tdhuck

I'm not an electrician so this post might not matter, but part of my day job is to work with electricians and low voltage contractors when we build new buildings or add on to existing buildings or need to add new circuits in an industrial environment.

If the company is open for business and generating revenue, they can pay to get this done the proper way.

I can't stand reading/hearing stuff like this (on reddit or at my day job)

I suggested to our boss to tell the customer they need to update their MDP to handle the circuitry of the build-out, but he said they wouldn’t go for it.

Why won't the customer go for it? There are a few ways to do this right, present all those options and let them pick.

I would never recommend something that is not safe, is a 'hack' way of doing something or causes it to void the UL listing/not be under warranty/etc.

I understand companies want to save more money and pay themselves bigger bonuses, but when you quote work, you should only be quoting things to be done the right way, imo. If you cut corners here, where do you draw the line? Eventually it becomes about cutting more corners to get more jobs and make more money, but is that what you want your reputation to be based on?

I agree, but I don't know if I could daily drive a linux server OS that was CLI only.

AI has been crucial in navigating linux especially when I have a huge file and I need to find all instances of x or y or x and y, I can't even do it that fast in windows with notepad ++.

I bet powershell could also do what I wanted, in windows of course, but my challenge is I can't remember commands/syntax/modifiers/etc. AI makes that part a breeze, now.

I still think linux CLI is very powerful especially if you know how to use it. When troubleshooting services AI was spitting out all this syntax to show log files that start at certain spots, which saved hours of what I was previously doing with filtering logs.

I'm not trying to make this an AI post because I've also had AI fail hard on other things (not specifically related to linux CLI). AI is like any other tool, you need to know how to use it in order for it to be effective.

If I give a non handy person a hammer drill, they aren't going to benefit from having that tool if they don't know its purpose.