> And you expect that this whole process will have saved you time, while you play games?

The topic in question is “Can AI tools do a task that would take a human 4 hours”. Not whether it can do that in a way that leads to maintainability or sustained learning. I’m noodling on a hobby project as leisure time. I got what I wanted. I had fun.

> incur future costs for not understanding it as it fails to act as you expect

That is your stronger argument. I’ve seen quality problems with the search results that come from using a smaller embedding model than I should. I don’t know yet if that’s a blocker or tolerable.

But I think that argument would be wrong too, because I’m very glad I chose Claude. The biggest limitation might be that I don’t have the compute locally to run an embedding model good enough to achieve decent results. It would have been a huge waste of my time to build it by hand and discover that at the end. I’m not about to pay for a sass vector DB or run this in AWS. At that level of effort I’d just scrap it.