Culture, Frameworks and the Age of AI — with Elliot Taylor (Patchstack)

I worked with Elliot Taylor at Pfizer years ago, building security tooling on Laravel Nova. Now he runs engineering at Patchstack — and the job looks nothing like it did five years ago. This one's not a pitch. No sponsor, no prediction deck. Just two people who've been in the trenches talking about what's actually changing — in the role, in the tools, and in how teams ship. What we get into: Why "traditional engineering is over" and what the role is morphing into The 90/10/200% rule — how most dev skills are fading but the rest got massively amplified What happens when the whole company can @Claude in Slack How Patchstack flipped shift-left on its head — because time-to-exploit went from months to minutes The Codex vs Claude analogy that'll stick with you Where Lovable, Supabase, and no-code fit next to Laravel and hand-carved code Why the People Ops team at Patchstack is now shipping their own apps 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 12:30 — The role of engineer, irrevocably changed 14:30 — "@Claude, is this possible?" — flattening the company 18:00 — AI slop, bug bounties, and the time-to-exploit problem 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: two very different personalities 35:00 — No-code, Lovable, and what comes after the engineer Mentioned in this episode Patchstack — https://patchstack.com/ Laravel, Laravel Nova, Filament, Laravel Cloud Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex Lovable, Supabase, n8n, Xano, Softr Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim et al. Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and David Farley   👉 Become a Sponsor https://forms.gle/Kh1xURwDS7Y2oXTJ9 👉 Be a guest on the show https://forms.gle/SPdiQoZAHBzrKWRHA👉 Subscribe to my YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@AlfredNutile