#RSE #RSE_CH #EPFL

We had a great time at our first RSE lightning talk in 2026 at EPFL! Thanks to everybody who chimed into the discussions about - LLMs and data papers without data :)

You can find a summary of the meeting here:

https://rse.swiss/blog/2026_02_26_epfl_lightning_talks/

EPFL RSE Lightning Talks

After more discussion with LLMs, I started to use Claude to install and configure my new Hetzner server with OpenTofu and Incus. Everything went well, I managed to discuss different options - even though I had to guide it, and w/o having installed a server 50 times, I would've been lost.

And then came the complexity cliff: like Willy the Coyote, Claude was running, but there was no ground anymore. And it fell, and it didn't work. Now I'll have to dig out the documentation anyway...