I gave my coding agent root on my VPS so it would stop making me deploy by hand

Last week I built a little dashboard with Claude. Took maybe ten minutes. Then I spent the next hour trying to get it online. ssh in, install docker, write a Dockerfile, set up nginx, run certbot, certbot fails, read the log, oh the DNS hasn't propagated, wait, run it again, open port 443, realize ufw was blocking it the whole time. By the time it was live I'd forgotten what the app even did. I've done that maybe a few hundred times by now. I'm a backend guy, I'm fast at it. But fast at something boring still means doing the boring thing.