Claude-Code

The general consensus is that AI code is bloated, repetitive, non-idiomatic. A study of more than a thousand Reddit and Hacker News threads poetically called what we are seeing “An Endless Stream of AI Slop”. So when I started my latest project, I kicked it off with an admin-editable homepage. That decision forced me to build user registration, login, auth, and sessions right along with it, the necessary plumbing to wire it all up. There’s nothing in our PRD about a CMS. An editable text box just happens to be a simple feature to review on its own, and building it requires all the same auth logic the real product needed anyway. I deployed it to production and reviewed every line before the fun features got a single prompt. Okay, I reviewed most of the lines. Well, I reviewed some sections. 😁 ...

That’s Slonik up there in the storyboard image, a friendly PostgreSQL elephant sitting behind a desk under a neon “OPEN FOR BUSINESS” sign, watching a line of AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) shipping containers wait their turn at the door. He was going to star in a video about Azure Private Link. He had a co-star, too: Ricky the Raccoon, our hacker, who shows up first in a hard hat with a jackhammer, then in a top hat and monocle, and finally in a fedora and trench coat where he’s figured out how to spin up his own Azure VM and walk straight in through the “Allow public access from any Azure service” checkbox. There was a circus tent, somewhere in Act 2, representing the entirety of Azure’s customer base flooding through that checkbox like a carnival. ...