Jacob Bennett had been saying what a fun time it is to be a developer, now that anyone can build personal tools that would never make sense as a product, like Dyrynda's own system for running Laracon AU. This was Dyrynda's short reply.
North Meets South Web Podcast · 2026-10-15
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Jake Bennett
…to be in this in this. It's not a fun time to be looking for a job if you're if you're not currently employed in this area. But like if you are employed in this area, it feels like it's a really fun time to be a developer. If you have a stable job, right? It's a really fun time to be a developer.
Michael Dyrynda
Sure. There's like definitely more software being written. There's not more software being sold.
Jake Bennett
Oh my gosh. Yes. That's exactly correct. That is exactly correct. We are pushing so many features. It's unreal how much stuff we're getting done at work. So many things we're building. Tell you what. The amount of stuff
Michael Dyrynda
that is being done can be done is possible. And yet I'm doing an integration at the moment that we like started in. We kick off the conversation, I think, like this time last year. And then February was the last week. Are you serious? Like the last we heard from this partner was in February. Oh…
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Dyrynda had just described an agent setup that works overnight on the tooling for Laracon AU, the conference he runs. Projects he'd wanted to build for years now get done while he sleeps.
North Meets South Web Podcast · 2026-09-17
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Jake Bennett
dude. Honestly, I just
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was talking to Jordan Abraham. That's what I've always wanted to do. Yeah, I mean,
Michael Dyrynda
but just like no time to do it. Like with my day job and like kids and commitments and things like that, there's just no way that I could have done all of this stuff that I wanted to do without having an army of developers behind me. It's like this stuff just gets done. I think I'm gonna check on it and make sure it's where I want. Yeah,
Jake Bennett
I think it was Jordan Brill I was talking to the other day and he was saying like this AI stuff feels like another industrial revolution in the sense that like I don't remember it's like 100 years ago like 38% of America was farmers like just because it required so many people to be employed in…
Michael Dyrynda
the latest season of uh clarkson's farm
Jake Bennett
so well we bought
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