This resonates a lot with me. I'm the CTO of a software factory-ish company. I get daily emails from clients running our decisions through LLMs and asking for ridiculous stuff that would multiply the implementation cost for them, just because Claude said so. No, your 3 users app doesn't need to be SOC2 compliant. No, of course we don't have triple zone redundancy while you're paying a 50 USD AWS bill.

Most of the time, these are just concerns triggered by chatting by an over-zealous LLM; in the worst cases, they are demands.

I'm usually able to clear concerns and disarticulate the LLM by explaining to customers how much more expensive everything would be if we did things like that. But it feels so frustrating, it's like you have to prove yourself everytime and justify every decision. These interactions have made me question my future in the industry, if I'm willing to keep dealing with these situations. I'm trying to foster patience in my life to cope with this.