[Ciantic]

I've used Claude and AWS CDK to build infra code during past year, it is great help but it is not to be trusted. I would not even consider it for Ralph Wiggum Loop style iteration or let alone allowing it to run `cdk deploy` or `cdk destroy`. It can generate decent looking constructs, but it comes up values for you like serverlessV2MinCapacity or sometimes it creates resources I don't need. It can end up costing a lot if you then deploy something you didn't expect to.

Since running destroy and deploy also takes a long time, gets stuck, throws weird errors etc, one still needs to read the docs for many things and understand the constructs it outputs.

[8note]

ive had it write some good cdk, but only as a one off project. havent tried any maintenance, but the deployment of infrastructure should also go through CI/CD, so the only thing i could destroy is a local playground

i did have to fight it to build the right thing - it wanted to spend something like $100/month but what i had in mind should have been <1, and i eventually got it there.

something i found handy prompt wise was to keep asking claude to predict the monthly cost after builds