"They cluster around exactly the parts of engineering that take sustained operational experience, the idempotency key that keeps two racing requests from corrupting state, the backoff and jitter that keep a retry from turning into a stampede, the migration written to dodge a long table lock, the rate limiter, the circuit breaker, the structured log that makes the eventual failure diagnosable at 3am."

But these are things that the AI actually knows how to do just about as well as regular developer would. I run into these problems all the time working on a trading platform and AI is quite good at solving these issues and discussing them if you have questions or providing a collection of strategies you can choose from.