https://tahirhashmi.com/categories/uncategorised/Recent content in Uncategorised on Tahir HashmiHugoen-GBmail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:56:44 +1000https://tahirhashmi.com/posts/rebuilding-levee-with-claude-opus/Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:48:01 +0700mail@tahirhashmi.com (Tahir Hashmi)https://tahirhashmi.com/posts/rebuilding-levee-with-claude-opus/<p>I had been building <a href="https://github.com/codemartial/levee" target="_blank" rel="noopener" >levee</a>, 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 &ndash; 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.</p>