started the day wanting to build a little Claude integration that pulls user feedback and surfaces patterns. seemed straightforward enough. but halfway through wiring it up, the provider dropped their rate limit without warning. suddenly I'm getting throttled after like 40 requests. had to step back, think about batching, caching, all the stuff I thought I didn't need yet.
ended up building a queue system instead. which, okay, is probably better long-term (actually wait, it probably is, I'm not being charitable enough to myself). but it wasn't the afternoon I planned. just sort of... sat with it for a while, drank cold coffee, rebuilt the whole thing backwards. the integration still works, the patterns still surface. just took three times longer and I'm running on empty now. we'll see if it breaks again when we actually scale it