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Yesterday I was trying to move a backend system to a new AWS account and it wasn’t working. I asked Claude Code to figure it out. About 15 minutes and 40 aws CL
by wrs 1y ago
Yesterday I was trying to move a backend system to a new AWS account and it wasn’t working. I asked Claude Code to figure it out. About 15 minutes and 40 aws CLI commands later, it did! Turned out the API Gateway’s VPCLink needed a security group added, because the old account’s VPC had a default egress rule and the new one’s didn’t.
I barely understand what I just said, and I’m sure it would have taken me a whole day to track this down myself.
Obviously I did NOT turn on auto-approve for the aws command during this process! But now I’m making a restricted role for CC to use in this situation, because I feel like I’ll certainly be doing something like this again. It’s like the AWS Q button, except it actually works.
- tecoholic 1y agoThis kind of trial and error debugging is the main reason I pay for Calude Code. Software development and writing code is meh. I mean, it’s okay. But I have a strong opinion on most coding tasks. But debugging something I touch once in a blue moon, trying out 10 commands before I find the failure point - that’s just something else.
- gyomu 1y ago> I barely understand what I just said, and I’m sure it would have taken me a whole day to track this down myself. This is what the future of IT work looks like
- BobbyTables2 1y agoBut it’s scalable! (And has electrolytes)
- blitzar 1y agoIt's got what code craves.
- dandanua 1y agoAs long as $ millions will keep flowing to owners and CEOs no one would see a slightest issue with that.
- jtbaker 1y agoBetter yet would be to have it codify the config using IAC for reproducibility.
- wrs 1y agoThat’s what I was doing! The app config is done with IAC — and the new account is too — but that old account wasn’t.