Zero to App with AI, Part 4: Shipping Is Still Sysadmin

By the end of Part 3 the app worked great, on my desk. This is the part where it had to run somewhere else, and where “AI writes the code” met “computers are still computers.” Spoiler: the app-side work was almost eerily smooth, and every single problem lived in the last mile of Linux plumbing. As the guy whose day job is networks, I found this both humbling and deeply familiar. ...

July 15, 2026 · 6 min · 1068 words · Nate