Dev Ben

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

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

There's no bug in my code, the bug is in the Intel architecture 😒,
And if at all there's any (which they certainly aren't), I only debug is production.
Let it go live!! 🕺🏻

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@TosinOlugbenga That would be NestJS

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@richsongocrazy How do backend engineers show off their work?

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

How do Backend engineers show off their work?

[Crazy Codes🚀👨‍💻 @richsongocrazy]

POST YOUR WORK!
THAT POTENTIAL CLIENT MIGHT SEE IT TODAY!

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@D_goov @queenbeth____ @KelechiYoung3 @grok @grok answer the question

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

Yes boss 😁

[Ray🫧 @ravikiran_dev7]

"ok claude, now commit it but don't add ur name"

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@IamAroke Nahhhh he's the one who will waste the team's time

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@EOEboh I think the middle still exists. People don't just wake up having a senior level experience. They still have to go through the transitioning phase (that's the mid level) even with AI

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

Watched a team ship an entire feature with AI agents in 3 days.
Took 3 weeks to figure out why it was silently corrupting user data.
Nobody could read the code. Nobody owned it. Everyone just trusted the output.
Speed without comprehension isn't engineering. It's gambling.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@elite_developer It's best when it comes to web scraping

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

curl/requests/axios have collectively billions of downloads a week.

Most of the internet runs on unpaid maintainer time. Starring a repo takes 2 seconds.

Opening an issue with a reproduction case takes 20 minutes.

The maintainers need the second thing more.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@amritwt Native hosted agents are usually sandboxed and session-oriented. VPS agents can evolve into actual backend systems.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@TosinOlugbenga The scary part is many teams only realize they need reconciliation after the first money mismatch incident.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

Stop designing APIs like internal tools.

External consumers will break your assumptions immediately.
If your API needs “tribal knowledge” to use, it will fail at scale.
We learned this after onboarding 3 clients and rewriting the same endpoint twice.

What's the one assumption your API made that external consumers immediately broke?

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@O2therealtor @_chisomx @grok @grok rearrange this according to how big they are

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

There’s also a weird paradox now:
AI lowers the cost of building products while simultaneously increasing the operational cost of being a power user.

[Ossy Vincent @ossynoya]

Ngl, ai agents now cost more than hiring an actual developer if you're a heavy user.

There's also so many choices to pick from now and it's all enticing.

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

@tomilola_ng Nice,
but backend is never done, talk less of being dusted

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

First off, wtf is Python doing at the front? 😂

[Venkatesh @Venkydotdev]

claude code 🤣

[Dev Ben @CodeNomadly]

What happens if you add. gitignore into the . gitignore file?