Haha. Yes. Much smaller scale versions of this led me to joke with a coding agent that LLMs tended to converge towards "Large corporation infrastructure best practices" when designing cloud infrastructure, when it was only me working on hobby side-projects with nearly no users and that I wouldn’t be able to put food in my fridge if they kept just spinning up VPCs for no reason.

Which somehow ended up being a very convincing argument for more frugal engineering, leading to a sort of "mind the user’s fridge" policy, "Fridge-Driven Development".

A policy that has been dutifully and scrupulously observed by all agents since, across all projects. Unlike my original clear, comprehensive, infrastructure guidelines.