This is true. Just a few days ago I had Claude one-shot some WebSocket utilities for reconnect and message queueing. It took 2 minutes. I've written countless

This is true. Just a few days ago I had Claude one-shot some WebSocket utilities for reconnect and message queueing. It took 2 minutes. I've written countless WebSocket wrappers in the past (similar aversion to socket.io as others in this thread). The one-shot output was perfect. Certainly better than my patience would've allowed. Maybe socket.io is doing something fancy on the server side, but for clients, it's absolutely overkill.