Season 2 · Episode 1763
Backend Grunt Work Is Dead. What Now?
AI agents now write 80% of boilerplate code, but the real backend engineering challenges remain.
My Weird Prompts · Daniel Rosehill
March 29, 202619m 35s
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Show Notes
The era of manually writing SQL migrations and REST endpoints is fading as agentic AI handles the grunt work. We explore what this means for backend developers, from the rising value of deep systems knowledge to the dangers of AI-generated code at scale. Discover why the specialist is back, how juniors will learn, and what "human-agent hybrid" development looks like in 2026.