Hello everyone, in this email: two new videos (my honest take on how AI has changed programming, and a pure backend tutorial with Bun and Elysia), plus a giveaway. I'm partnering with Vercel on their upcoming agents event and giving away 20 tickets to Vercel Ship '26. Details to enter are at the bottom.

First up, I shared my honest thoughts on how AI has changed programming:

AI Ruined Programming

That said, coding by hand is still a great thing to do. I wanted to take a break from the AI content and release a pure backend video. We build a full CRUD API from scratch with Bun and Elysia in TypeScript:

ElysiaJS Full CRUD API Beginner Tutorial (Bun + Elysia TypeScript Backend Engineering - 1 Hour)

Please give them a like if you enjoy my content! This lets YouTube and others know to pay attention to my videos.

What happens after you build an AI agent?

Building the agent is one thing. Getting it into production and making it reliable at scale is another.

That's a big part of what Vercel is focused on right now, and it's why I'm excited to be partnering with them to give away 20 tickets to Vercel Ship '26.

On October 15, developers are coming together in San Francisco to learn how teams are actually building and shipping AI agents to production.

There are sessions on everything from building durable agents and agentic infrastructure to how companies like Anthropic, AWS, Notion, and others are approaching AI in production.

Speakers include Guillermo Rauch, Founder & CEO of Vercel, Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify, and engineering leaders from Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, AWS, and more.

If you're a developer interested in building with AI and want to learn from the people actually working on these systems, enter here: https://tally.so/r/xXOjev

That's it, there are no other steps.

After the giveaway wraps, I'll email / DM the winners, so stay tuned.

If you know a developer who would want to go, send this their way!

Full conference details: https://vercel.plug.dev/JbhN4f5

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Caleb