Worked on my first borderline-computer-sciency not 100% trivial task in a long while today: Not sending one SNS message per event, but batching them on the client side, sending out as batched message if it went beyond a certain size or beyond a certain timeout (-> limit event delay caused by waiting for batch to fill up.) (this will save A LOT of money)

I wrote a nice spec for it, gave it to claude fable and it completely shit the bed. I ended up writing most of it myself and let claude iron out the bugs and kinks. Ultimately it was just 150 lines and far easier to follow and much more sensible than the fully automated claude output. I don't understand why AI couldn't build this.

Apparently I am still not living in the dark-software-factory parallel world many other people live in. Am I already part of the permanent AI underclass? Lapped and too far behind to catch up?