The Beer Driven Devs

In episode 81 we had the hard conversation about AI and this career, because you can't talk honestly about what comes next until you've admitted where you are. This is that conversation — the hopeful one.

Two colleagues described the same problem to Liam — one called it complicated, the other called it complex. That one word was the whole answer. We get into Cynefin, why misdiagnosing a problem guarantees you'll never solve it, and where that leaves the job of a developer.

Seven Adobe apps cloned in a week. A toolkit that reverse engineers anything. Matt argues the software profession isn't changing — it's ending — and that capability moat is rapidly drying up.

An OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, and the Prime Minister got in front of a camera. Matt and Liam ask what actually happened, whether it's as frightening as it sounds, and who ends up carrying the can when nobody told the agent to do it.

A correction to last episode turns into a question neither of us had thought to ask: when a vendor drops your package into a default template, who agreed to the support burden that comes with it?