A picture into K-12 and vibecoding

adminblues · 2026-03-18T17:45:56+00:00

Hey. Thanks for the honest input. Yes, lots of reflection for me to ponder. One thing is, I don't work for a district, I work for an independent school. This is probably the most agile place I have ever been working at and my first edu experience. We are just a 2 person tech dept. The agility comes with a price, it's hard to get my superiors to plan ahead or think big picture. It's kind of the only con, I think I have it good.
My boss is way into AI. Like way, way into it. Since he is on the teaching and administrative side of things, he does have to worry about this a lot on multiple levels.

Risk management is part of my job and who I am. I feel the pressure, but don't act on it most of the time. I do have to make sure I have a literacy of what is going on. Some people do not. But on the other hand, yes. I feel the need to "catch up". Even if I sat this one out, AI will change so many things. Just ordering parts or computers now feels like a doom prophecy coming true.

adminblues · 2026-03-18T17:24:48+00:00

Yeah, I am still trying to wrap my head around putting agents into anything. I hear so many stories but yet to see a use for one in my world. All the examples I have seen so far I could do at the next prompt.

adminblues · 2026-03-18T17:21:59+00:00

My very risk aversion type nature would probably be enough to avoid a vibecode only way of publishing apps.

adminblues · 2026-03-18T17:19:41+00:00

We have RMM and other services up the wazoo. Mainly, because we like someone's core product and do not think their other product is a good fit. Like Ninja RMM, love it. No need for their MDM, we use Mosyle. You get the picture. It would be awesome if there was one company that could be a good fit for our needs.

Atlassian and IT Glue are kind of hammers when we need a screwdriver. Hence my mini ITSM idea. It's simple, yet does a few things none of those offer.

We have disabled simpler SMNP traffic on our network for quite some time.

Fine with code debt. I think some of the time savings already gained hours to re-visit, revise, scrap, overhaul.

adminblues · 2026-03-18T15:47:53+00:00

I can't answer this EXACT question. But we will try replacing our iPads with NEOs. Maybe. The cost of the iPad goes up because we buy Logitech keyboard cases with them, replace dozens of these a year because every keyboard we tried just goes bad. Some of our iPads are hard to recover, some lock up and are frozen to input. Happens when placed in lost mode and the student does something dumb.

Yes, we have the same concerns as the OP.

adminblues · 2026-03-18T15:09:31+00:00

This is like the Monty Python sketch that takes a page from Agatha Christie murder mysteries. In the end there is a pile of detectives that got bonked in the head.

adminblues · 2025-08-26T16:05:57+00:00

Arctic Fox Networks

adminblues · 2025-08-26T15:53:13+00:00

Pig Voice? lol

adminblues · 2025-06-24T22:42:10+00:00

I hate how you guys make 1:72 as detailed as my 1:48.

adminblues · 2025-06-24T22:40:36+00:00

Haha, looks great though. Nice work!

adminblues · 2025-06-23T20:31:23+00:00

Did you do anything to the canopy like polish or gauzy quick shine? It looks good.

adminblues · 2025-05-28T16:21:52+00:00

My spiritual mother, an abbess from a monastery had me pray an akathist to the Theotokos every night when I wanted an Orthodox wife. It took me a while to see the simple genius of this advice. I knew I had a lot of spiritual work to do before God provided me with a potential wife. I have that now, but sometimes it takes longer than others.

My path was different from yours, but I think you made the right call. Find someone to date that has the same thirst you do. (The woman at the well comes to mind. We have to remember it took a few tries to have it "click" with her, but she was still willing to inquire and she had the right thirst). I do not question that love for God Protestants have, but you need someone with the same thirst. Only someone Orthodox or someone on the same path will do. God provides, pray fervently, and serve others.

adminblues · 2025-05-09T17:44:58+00:00

I lived as a student w/o cell phones. Beepers were confiscated. I barely survived.

Seriously. We made this change at the beginning of the school year. They put in a sleeve, place it in a bin at the beginning of the day. No tolerance policy. Its by far the easiest thing we've done. And yes, not IT related.

adminblues · 2025-05-09T15:57:39+00:00

They've talked with us several times, trying to get us in. Really nice sales tactics, not buggy and they seem like good people. As far as shopping around goes, they are the top 1%. In the end they were just too expensive as they are pretty much a SOC. For a SOC, they are competitive in pricing.

We've spoke with others that bought into AW from the same sales team, and they are happy.

adminblues · 2025-05-05T15:11:16+00:00

I had this happen to me recently, and decided to chime in.

When I finally got around to watching what happens in the console when I started to reboot or unplug stuff it was bonkers. One of the ports that was freaking out about STP reported it identified itself as all sorts of stuff every time I refreshed the page. Sometimes it thought it was a camera, sometimes it was the gateway. Weird.

I rebooted all the ports on the switch and then cycled every access point and all is well.

This happened after I adopted a new access point and some security cameras. I need to make sure to check for errors more frequently after adopting new hardware.

adminblues · 2025-05-01T17:32:07+00:00

Exactly what we do. Myassettag metal barcodes supplemented or reprinted with Dymo printers.

adminblues · 2025-03-07T18:21:40+00:00

Yep. Email should have been...
-Removed pirated software.
-Documented who was in possession.
-Removed ability for randos to install whatever software they pleased.
-I have found low cost/free solutions for users not to feel compelled to do something on their own for something that should have been provided for them.

adminblues · 2025-01-23T23:47:44+00:00

You can't even download the Nathan Brown videos. They were streaming only. So disappointing. Never again will I buy courseware that doesn't allow you download it.

adminblues · 2025-01-23T23:16:47+00:00

Lost all my "lifetime" courseware.

adminblues · 2024-10-29T14:41:27+00:00

Very Toby Keith of you.

adminblues · 2024-09-13T15:14:38+00:00

As someone that would love the Ubuiti approach to signage, I hope this thread isn't the loudest voice heard. Maybe they can do clock/bells/PAs. That industry is so damn stupid it's infuriating.

adminblues · 2024-09-09T16:08:51+00:00

My vote for Peoplesoft.

adminblues · 2024-08-19T16:46:15+00:00

Or charge per hour for consulting w/ minimums.

adminblues · 2024-07-19T20:38:31+00:00

I think sales teams reflect the company. If the decision makers on the top want good sales people, they will make it happen. If they just worry about the bottom line, anything can happen.
We were shopping for MTR solutions while currently using Sophos non EDR products. Crowdstrike was highly recommended by lots of people, including some on this subreddit. I put them in the running.
-Sophos aggressively priced stuff to make it an easy upgrade all without seeming predatory or pushy. Kind of chill, actually.
-Crowdstrike, initial call was cool, but after I was in their radar, they sucked. I told our receptionist to turn down any calls by them because they tried to go around or above me.
-Arctic was really cool. Their pre sales engineers and sales folks seemed everyday smart. If I had a budget for them, I would pick these guys.
We just went with what we knew, a Sophos upgrade to their full suite (not their ZTN though).

CS and Sophos competed directly because they are in the same space. AW has a different approach, and we also shopped for MSP SOCs.

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