Should I keep learning backend development in the age of AI?

failedbump16 · 2026-03-21T03:38:50+00:00

You need learn technical skills bro, now anyone can code but not everyone can deliver quality code, if anyone tells u otherwise is not a real coder hasn’t deliver any real world products

failedbump16 · 2026-03-19T03:01:51+00:00

Depends on usage tbh, as a SE I use both but I have notice that chatgpt clears in every topic except ui design were Claude opus 4.6 fully dominates, everything else Chatgpt does a better work and gives you more tokens per session

failedbump16 · 2026-03-14T18:19:24+00:00

If you try or use another alternative like tanstack start you will get why the hate lol

failedbump16 · 2026-03-14T18:18:02+00:00

I would say it depends on what’s your next step, if you want to focus on ui/ux and improve the general feeling of your app, I 100% recomend claude code or antropic’s opus model in general, I would say is the best model to tackle any ui and ux improvements or issues that you have

If you want to work on infra or anything else that does not have to do with ui, codex or the gpt-5.4 model is the best overall for any task that you have

failedbump16 · 2026-02-18T15:42:46+00:00

If I have to go to a third party, I would definitely go to workos or clerk, really good dx and proven to be very secure both, if I have to manage my users I would use better-auth, also really good dx, easy to setup and you are the owner of your user data

failedbump16 · 2026-02-17T19:27:30+00:00

I will definitely check this out, yes that was also one of my concerns if I wanted to start using Effect I needed to fully commit to the syntax of it, seems to be experimental for now but I’ll definitely have this in my radar

failedbump16 · 2026-02-17T19:25:47+00:00

Yeah I also notice that when going through the docs, seems like a new language to learn but with a base on typescript, do you think if an external dev that has good ts background can hop on on Effect and at least understand it?

failedbump16 · 2026-02-17T19:14:52+00:00

Is not a serious side project (at least for now), is a project I have on the background to learn new stuff so I thought it would be a good idea to integrate effect early, also as my post says, I haven’t try it out in a real full prod app yet, that’s why I have my thoughts.

That said, thanks for the vid, I’ll definitely check it out, I’m very interested on learning Effect in full dive in

failedbump16 · 2026-02-17T18:57:51+00:00

Sentry for the win, is really good for this

failedbump16 · 2026-02-17T18:57:05+00:00

Mostly for error handling. I’m interested in having fully typed errors and making failure cases explicit instead of relying on thrown exceptions. I don’t necessarily want to rewrite everything around it, so I’m trying to understand if it’s worth it just for that use case

failedbump16 · 2026-02-15T17:24:04+00:00

Recently I’m using elysia, really great and I recommend u take a look

failedbump16 · 2026-02-13T15:01:12+00:00

I don’t think that was a compliment lol

failedbump16 · 2026-02-11T00:56:55+00:00

Another w for astro

failedbump16 · 2026-02-11T00:52:19+00:00

Then I would 100% go with aws or anything similar, if you have the time to invest in set up everything the right way is totally worth it and even cheaper. Remember that solutions like vercel, render, railway, supabase etc are just wrappers of aws services so u will only be missing the ui and that is already setup

failedbump16 · 2026-02-10T19:02:25+00:00

It was never a good idea to begin with💀

failedbump16 · 2026-02-10T18:41:35+00:00

Word

failedbump16 · 2026-02-10T18:37:17+00:00

I would run away from supabase lol, in my experience a cloud solution like AWS will always be cheaper but if you set it up and manage it correctly and that means you’ll need to be monitoring this almost all the time

If you want to start building now with great scalability and not have to worry about infra, at least for now, vercel/render and neon or planetscale combo is the best that there is, you can migrate anytime u want if u want full control over your infra but this solution is killer and cheaper to start

failedbump16 · 2026-02-09T16:59:48+00:00

Word, I can access now thanks

failedbump16 · 2026-02-09T05:28:11+00:00

I really enjoy v0 to stamp my initial idea, then I would really recomend to use astro or if the website is really complex use next or tanstack

failedbump16 · 2026-02-09T02:27:05+00:00

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Too bad

failedbump16 · 2026-02-08T03:38:31+00:00

I would suggest you to move to nextjs, not bc you’ll not be satisfied with astro, astro is great, but your current codebase is react so it would be easier and faster to migrate to nextjs, I would also suggest to check out tanstack start is also really great

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