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by gymbeaux 24 days ago
LLMs seem to be best at writing web apps intended to be internal tools. I don’t need to ever really read the code because the functionality is relatively simple- but still valuable. I had Claude Code build me a CLI tool for running common kubectl commands against our EKS cluster. With EKS (AWS) you generally use the AWS CLI to authenticate and then choose the correct EKS cluster and then you can run your kubectl commands. So this CLI tool remembers all the AWS accounts and EKS cluster names and namespaces and pods that I care about. It’s been a huge time saver, and I never would have had the time to build it as part of my day to day. And because it’s an internal tool, I don’t have to worry about things like security/authentication, and any bugs aren’t as big a deal as if they were customer-facing. I wouldn’t want to use it for generating an app that is going on the public internet and doing anything sensitive/important/valuable with my or other people’s data (I’m sure that doesn’t stop others from vibe coding commercial products).