It handles DevOps tasks way faster than I would - setting up infra, writing migr...

MandieD · 2025-12-01T12:19:53 1764591593

"Once there's real traffic and a team I'll tighten things up."

As someone who has been in this industry for a quarter century: no, you won't.

At least, not before something even worse happens that finally forces you to.

ljm · 2025-12-01T15:18:35 1764602315

If I felt the need to optimise things like infra setup and config at an early stage of a project, I'd be worried that I'm investing effort into the wrong thing.

Having an LLM churn out infra setup for you seems decidedly worse than the `git push heroku:master` of old, where it was all handled for you. And, frankly, cheaper than however much money the LLM subscription costs in addition to the cloud.

ryanjshaw · 2025-12-01T13:45:42 1764596742

But why have it execute the tasks directly? I use it to setup tasks in a just file, which I review and then execute myself.

Also, consider a prod vs dev shell function that loads your prod vs dev ENV variables and in prod sets your terminal colors to something like white on red.

wavemode · 2025-12-01T15:20:35 1764602435

> Once there's real traffic and a team I'll tighten things up.

Nope. Once there's real traffic, you'll be even more time-constrained trying to please the customers.

It's like a couple who thinks that their failing relationship will improve once they have a child.

lp0_on_fire · 2025-12-02T03:07:26 1764644846

There is nothing more permanent in computerlandia than a temporary solution.

946789987649 · 2025-12-01T15:21:05 1764602465

If you have no real traffic, what complex things are you doing that even require such tools?