Building the Machine
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A developer shares how they built an AWS operations toolkit using Swamp, composed of nine separate extensions that investigate outages and run daily health checks. The post argues that AI agents are good at execution but poor at deciding what to execute — so the author encoded judgment into structured workflows rather than letting the agent design the system. The key insight is the distinction between 'easy' (one monolithic extension) and 'simple' (nine focused extensions with clear boundaries), where the architectural decisions remain human-made while the agent handles implementation.
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The problem #The structure #What the workflow does #Why nine extensions and not one #What I learned #The machine that builds the machine #4 Impressions