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It’s less scary because when an LLM messes up, you can roll back its changes, which is much easier to do in NixOS, as opposed to other Linux distros where you have to take filesystem snapshots.

In my experience LLMs tend to work far better when they have a tree of structured information to search through and change.

Compared to poking at a mungy ball of accidental state where every change introduces complexity for the future which every downstream agent needs to correctly find.

Its much easier for the agent to look at a nixos module and decide that it should do `services.nginx.enable = true` vs reverse engineering everything it should do to install nginx on the system.

And likewise if theres an issue then its much more straightforward for it to unwind what it did in nixos vs a traditional software install and not accidentally mess with other users/services on the system.