Dev Ben

Backend engineer (Golang/Node) ||Builder||
Writing about systems, shipping, and the hard parts of dev

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[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

Where is the lie ?

[siddharth @buildwithsid]

October in a nutshell:

- PHP got hacked
- Railway got hacked
- OpenCode got hacked
- Binance got hacked
- Polymarket got hacked
- GitHub Actions got hacked
- SoftBank got hacked
- Cursor marketplace got hacked
- Coinbase vendor got hacked
- Fireworks AI got hacked
- LiteLLM got hacked
- Capcom got hacked
- npm packages got hacked
- TiDB Cloud got hacked
- Warp's vendor got hacked

happy cybersecurity awareness month

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[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@wealth_director I did once and it took me a whole year to finish it 😂

[Jafrin⁷ 🌸🌙 @antares_ojo_o]

Due to inflation I'm downgrading from ADHD to AD720p with ads

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

Average tech bro lifestyle.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

Have a wonderful Sunday

[Kagan @KaganTech]

Good morning fellow meninists.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@cyvanessali Ok…
What’s fun about your startup?

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@Akintola_steve How many people really pay for software these days?

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@ileridotxyz All you need is one really good one

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Everything is hard. Nothing works the first time. It all feels pointless. That’s when you realize you’re going to have to will it into existence with every ounce of your fucking soul. And that’s when it starts to happen.

[Victor @echo_vick]

Just a few years ago, management could comfortably wait out a two-week sprint to get a feature shipped.

Today, there’s growing impatience when a feature takes more than 24 hours to deliver. 🥲

The pressure on software engineers right now is crazy, and I don’t think we’re talking about it enough.

I can barely get two sentences into explaining my implementation plan before someone interrupts with:

“Just give it to Claude to do!”

“Sir, we need to think about…”

“That’s what Claude is there for. Let it do the heavy lifting!”

A task gets assigned, and barely 10 minutes later:

“Why is it taking so long? Aren’t you using Claude properly? This should take a minute or two!”

Somehow, the existence of AI has created this assumption that software engineering is now just a matter of writing a prompt and watching features magically appear.

Nobody wants to hear about architecture, edge cases, testing, security, or the implications of a poorly thought-out implementation.

Just ship it. And ship it NOW.

AI has become both a blessing and a curse.

Something I genuinely expected to reduce my workload has instead increased it. The productivity gains are real, but so are the expectations that come with them.

We’ve made development faster, but somehow, we’ve also made every delivery feel slower.

And that’s the irony nobody seems to be talking about.

Omo mehn, I’m just exhausted, might as well just resign, but it seems it’s the same everywhere😪

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@echo_vick It’s becoming annoying, no body cares to know why it works.
Let it just work 🤦‍♂️

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

Something I’ve been thinking about:

You can be productive and still feel like something is missing.

AI helps me finish tasks faster than before.

But finishing more tasks doesn’t mean I’m more fulfilled by my work.

I’m realizing those are two different things.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

I checked my screen time and discovered I spend an average of 10 hours a day on my phone.

My first thought was, “What am I doing with my life?”

Then I realized I was still getting my work done.

AI had made my workflow faster, but what was I doing with all the time I got back?

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

AI is making me question my relationship with coding.

I used to spend 10 hours a day on my PC, writing code, debugging, breaking things, and fixing them.

Now AI handles a lot of the heavy lifting.

I get more done, but something feels different.

I’m still figuring it out.

[King Elisha @KingElisha01]

Why did the designer bring a ladder to the meeting? To reach the next level of hierarchy.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

I think payment infrastructure has two very different layers:

Transfer layer:
Move money from A to B.

Transaction layer:
Make sure the agreement between A and B actually gets completed.

We’ve built incredible infrastructure for the first.

The second still improvement