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NOT AN AD 👉 Learn about PatchStack at http://patchstack.com/?utm_campaign=dailyai #aiengineering #ai #laravel #cybersecurity #softwareengineer I worked with Elliot Taylor at Pfizer years ago, building security tooling with spreadsheets and Laravel Nova. Now he runs engineering at Patchstack — and the job looks nothing like it did five years ago. This is the honest version of that conversation: no pitch, no prediction deck, just two people who've lived it talking about what's actually changing. What you'll get out of this one: Why "traditional engineering has changed" and what the role is morphing into The 90/10/200% rule on developer skills right now How Patchstack flipped shift-left on its head (time-to-exploit went from months to minutes) What flattened company structure actually looks like when anyone can @Claude in Slack The Codex vs Claude personality analogy you'll be repeating for the next month Where Lovable, Supabase, and no-code fit next to Laravel and hand-carved code Chapters 00:00 — Intro 01:00 — Culture, frameworks, and the books that actually work 03:00 — Rebuilding our old Pfizer security dashboard, the AI way 06:30 — Builders, not engineers 10:00 — AI as a thought partner (eerie Opus moments) 12:30 — The role of engineer, irrevocably changed 14:30 — "@Claude, is this possible?" — flattening the company 18:00 — AI slop, bug bounties, and time-to-exploit 23:30 — How Patchstack mitigates at the application layer 27:30 — DORA, boring deployments, and tech debt as a loan 32:30 — Codex vs Claude: disgruntled enterprise dev vs Red Bull 20-year-old 35:00 — No-code, Lovable, and what comes after the engineer Tools & Resources Mentioned → Patchstack — http://patchstack.com/?utm_campaign=dailyai → Books: Accelerate (Forsgren, Humble, Kim), The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim et al.), Continuous Delivery (Humble, Farley) If this conversation landed for you — the show is built on this kind of honest back-and-forth, not pitches. Subscribe so you catch the next on