Rebuilding Levee with Claude
I had been building levee, a self-configuring circuit breaker and rate limiter, on and off for almost a year. Then I over-designed it to failure. Part of the blame was mine, for trusting faulty benchmarks – implemented wrongly by, yes, Claude. It was only when I started questioning the results that Claude owned up to the flaws in its own benchmark logic. After several rounds of re-architecting them for a realistic simulation, the verdict was a gut-punch: Levee was the worst performing circuit breaker of the lot, by a huge margin.