Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Is there anything better, that I can afford? 🤔

It sets up a project scaffold and a nostr feed in 10 minutes. As soon as I want build something more novel, it starts wheezing and draining my budget, so that it's cheaper and faster to just code it myself.

And the AI getting better won't solve for that. It'll just mean that I have to build even more stuff even faster. The complexity goes through the roof. It's already the case that I sometimes can't find stuff without asking AI to search for it because I'm losing track of the architecture.

Had to back off the AI, for a bit, and clean up the mess. Buggy, bloated, overly-complex code _is_ the backdoor.