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I felt the same way regarding AI. I always felt like it was too unreliable, and while you obviously shouldn't trust it blindly, it has been doing a pretty good job explaining things to me. I've been using a local model with ollama, i think it's called qwen2.5 coder or something, and it has been helpfull explaining some NixOS stuff to me, where i couldn't find it myself (cause NixOS documentation is all over the place). I also use it for explaining some bash stuff to me sometimes when i'm writing a script. Usually i don't just care about the answer but i also want to learn why something works if it isn't clear to me, and so far it also has done a good job explaining how it works when i ask it a follow up question.