The Pretty Frontend and The Ugly Backend: Why Boring Technology Wins (Especially With AI)

Tuesday 4 November 2025
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In This Issue:

  • Why Django's 20 years of training data beats cutting-edge frameworks
  • The Secret Weapon: Boring Technology + AI velocity advantage
  • Real examples of AI-assisted development at 40-80x speed
  • Why 'legacy' means 'extensively documented in AI training'
  • Building features in hours instead of days with predictable stacks

Everyone wants to talk about the sexy frontend.

The React ecosystem with its 47 state management libraries. The TypeScript config that requires a PhD to understand. The build pipeline that needs a dedicated DevOps engineer.

Nobody wants to talk about Django and SQLite.

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