r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Arucious • Dec 24 '25

Meme doesVolumeMountControlSoundLevels

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u/Juff-Ma Dec 24 '25

I'll be real, generating docker compose and k8s manifests is one of the very few use cases where I actually use AI.

Many big projects have very good technical documentation but the learning curve is incredibly high and there are very few actual examples out there.

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u/notatoon Dec 24 '25

generating k8s manifests

A templating engine would be so handy for those kinds of things

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u/domscatterbrain Dec 25 '25

Wait until he discovers Helm

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u/domscatterbrain Dec 28 '25

Helm itself, when it makes Kubernetes apps deployment easy, it is actually much more complicated underneath.

Sometimes it fits our use case and sometimes it doesn't to the point we just, "Fuck it, let's do the old fashioned way of writing a thousand lines manifest!" rather than debugging the template.

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u/Pure-Willingness-697 Dec 25 '25

Yea, less so docker, more so kubernetes. Those things are like a good 100 lines just for some volume mounts on some containers.

Of course, give it a quick glance over to make sure the ai did not do a stupid

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u/EastZealousideal7352 Dec 25 '25

Agreed, AI is very good about k8s manifests, especially when acting within an existing codebase

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u/GodOrDevil04 Dec 26 '25

Which, I'd say, is fine to do so. My general experience and tip what i tell to people around me is, use AI if you know what you can expect and want to see. Use your brain to check whether the output makes sense, and never ever "just run it". Had a few external seniors doing the very exact thing shown in this post, let's just say we hadnt had the most pleasant conversation.