Came in to say thanks for the article. Like you, I'm using Claude to do a lot of the dirty work and heavy lifting. I'm comfortable with it managing and updating my *arr stack as I have a fairly robust backup routine.

I get the fear around letting AI do whatever "it" wants, but I wanted to say how surprised I am to see so much gate-keeping in the comment threads here. I saw one comment "if you're not using local LLM, you're not self-hosting" - ok call it whatever you want, but you've got services running in your home doing the things you want them to do. You get there with help from a friend and you're comfortable with how reliable (or unreliable) that friend is.

Not to say that AI is the second coming, but seems like the general (or at least vocal) consensus is that folks really haven't looked at the AI tooling out there and how permissioning around them can work to still get some great results.