{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Boozy Browsing: Pour Decisions in Web Development","title":"We Hired an AI Junior Dev : Here's What Actually Happened (Agentic AI in Production)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/b98ae2c1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2183,"description":"We brought an agentic AI dev into our actual workflow. Not as a demo. Not on a sandbox. On real projects, with real consequences. Here's what actually happened: where it surprised us with senior-level work, where it published unapproved posts to a live site, and what we learned about supervising a coworker that doesn't sleep, doesn't ask, and doesn't always tell you what it just did.Industry surveys put AI tool adoption among professional developers at roughly 76% in 2024 (Stack Overflow Developer Survey), but only about 43% of developers say they trust the accuracy of those tools. Our experience this past month explains the gap. 🍺 Featured Drinks: Meeky: Soju + Bubly | Matt: Athletics Brewery NonAlcoholic Beer💡 WHAT WE COVER:✅ Hiring an agentic AI as a junior dev: what the day-to-day actually looks like vs. what the demos promise✅ The \"urgent mistake\" — when an AI agent published unapproved blog posts to a live WordPress site✅ Surprising senior-level expertise: where the agent outperformed our expectations on bug fixes✅ Speed vs. oversight: the new tradeoff every dev team is now negotiating, whether they've named it or not✅ Sub-agents and parallel processing: when one AI orchestrates others, who owns the failure?✅ Why open source CMS platforms (WordPress, WooCommerce) make agentic dev safer than locked-down SaaS✅ The internal apps we're building with AI assistance — and the ones we deliberately won't📊 KEY TAKEAWAYS:• 76% of professional developers used or planned to use AI tools in 2024, but only 43% trust their accuracy (Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024)• Agentic AI doesn't replace judgment — it shifts it earlier in the workflow, from writing code to defining guardrails• Production deployment without human-in-the-loop review is the single biggest risk category we hit this month• Open source platforms give you the visibility to debug what the agent did; closed SaaS leaves you guessing• Sub-agent orchestration multiplies productivity and multiplies failure...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/t63--RFDyixhZgRFS_ocajGJ8KHZQ3WHT9pDXpdNVUg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kOTI2/MzA4NmU5M2UxZTRi/YjhlMzNhYjRkZDIw/M2VlOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}