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# [One Person, 34 Services: How AI Tooling Changed the Economics of Running a Production-Grade Homelab](https://blog.coutinho.io/how-ai-tooling-changed-the-economics-of-running-a-production-grade-homelab?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A platform engineer's honest account of using Claude Code, MCP integrations, and GitOps to manage a Kubernetes cluster that has no business being run by a single person. The Absurd Premise Here are the numbers. Three Proxmox bare-metal Dell Optiplex ...

Feb 9 · 15 min read · blog.coutinho.io  
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