The Bugs I Didn't Write And The Assumptions That Caused Them

This week I accidentally created my first vibe coded application. You might ask how one does this accidentally, but it's actually easier than you think. Assumptions Made: The first mistake I made was to assume that Claude remembered my setup and how I like to pair program. I have only had one previous project coded with the help of Claude and GHCP and it's a much more basic application than what I was building this week. I assumed, incorrectly, that Claude would 'remember' how I liked to work and go through the project with me as we make decisions and coding blocks together. The other assumption I made was giving a somewhat blanket approval for Claude to just run with things. I thought at some point Claude would stop, check its understanding during development and then continue but I got excited at the idea of using subagents and once I'd selected that option there was no stopping Claude on its rampage through my code! So What's the Project? I've recently started looking at doing more work with AI rather than just prompting Claude or GHCP to help with the day to day. I wanted to actually call an LLM and sift through information which could then be saved in a DB and recalled at a later point. I set myself a four week plan (with the help of Claude) to help solidify my learning with week one being a basic console application in C# that takes some text, sends to an LLM and then extracts certain information, in this case names of people, which is saved into a Postgres database. Sounds simple right? Where things went right This project started off very interesting. I had a conversation with Claude, same as I would with another developer, about the right LLM to use for this project. We went through the positives, negatives and the potential cost benefits and pitfalls of each option. In the end it was narrowed down to two choices, OpenAI or Gemini. Given that I was experimenting quite a bit and I didn't want to accidentally run up costs, I decided to go with Gemini's free t