I mean just have a coding agent do the whole process from start to finish. Tell it you want to seed an SVM from LLM runs on ticket data. I can bet that it'll do it all for you without much input from you at all.
I see coworkers using AI for tasks like "visit an API endpoint, download a file, put it in S3". This is so stupid. Okay if you want to use AI, but use it to write python code to do that, why pay in tokens every time you want to run that task, it makes no sense
Probably under the hood Claude creates some temporary python code or something.
But it bothers me, I don't know why. It's like paying a subscription service for the most stupid tasks
Your S3 case tho I think is a bit misplaced. You're right that if all your keys are configured correctly (API key, S3 key, etc) that a script to do that is like 5 lines in Python (once you get your venv going or use uv to setup the project lol), but tell an agent to just do the thing, and it will make sure that your API keys are in place and that you have access to the S3 bucket you're trying to write to and that the whole thing is in a venv, and then just report back that it's done.
Is it wasteful? Sure. For years I used to feel that way when I saw someone using a messaging app to message a friend across the hall in a loud room or when I saw someone taking a phone picture of their computer monitor and sending it. In the former case your packets are literally going from your phone to a central server and then onto someone else's phone in the same room. But, well, convenience wins.