--- title: "Building the Machine" url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-machine-q8m7tzibn source_url: https://webframp.com/posts/building-the-machine type: article source: "Webframp" published: 2026-05-24T07:45:55.510Z updated: 2026-05-24T07:46:25.160Z tags: ["aws", "automation", "ai-agents"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building the Machine **[Webframp](https://daily.dev/sources/webframp)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Swamp tutorial: make AI agent work repeatable](https://daily.dev/posts/swamp-tutorial-make-ai-agent-work-repeatable-va3nkfhad) · Flavio Copes · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Automation at the speed of Swamp \(Changelog & Friends \#130\)](https://daily.dev/posts/automation-at-the-speed-of-swamp-changelog-friends-130--drgz0cacp) · Changelog · 5 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-machine-q8m7tzibn)