alt Hacker NewsI'm running a server on AWS with TimescaleDB on the disk because I don't need much. I figure I'll move it when the time comes.
Claude Code this morning was about to create an account with NeonDB and Fly.io although it has been very successful managing the AWS EC2 service.
Claude Code likely is correct that I should start to use NeonDB and Fly.io which I have never used before and do not know much about, but I was surprised it was hawking products even though Memory.md has the AWS EC2 instance and instructions well defined.
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nikcub • yesterday at 10:40 PM
> Claude Code this morning was about to create an account with NeonDB
I had the same thing happen. Use planetscale everywhere across projects and it recommended neon. It's definitely a bug.
> Claude Code likely is correct that I should start to use NeonDB and Fly.io which I have never used before and do not know much about
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
In my experience, agents consistently make awful architectural decisions. Both in code and beyond (even in contexts like: what should I cook for a dinner party?). They leak the most obvious "midwit senior engineer" decisions which I would strike down in an instant in an actual meeting, they over-engineer, they are overly-focused on versioning and legacy support (from APIs to DB schemas--even if you're working on a brand new project), and they are absolutely obsessed with levels of indirection on top of levels of indirection. The definition of code bloat.
Unless you're working on the most bottom-of-the-barrel problems (which to be fair, we all are, at least in part: like a dashboard React app, or some boring UI boilerplate, etc.), you still need to write your own code.