Coding hasn’t disappeared. It has moved upstream from syntax to specification. In an agentic workflow, the developer’s value lies in defining intent precisely, not in typing code faster.
I demonstrate a workflow for seeding and migrating a Postgres database. Then how to debug and profile a Go API.
Transitioning to Go from another language is challenging. This is not a tutorial. In this post I share the obstacles I faced.
Using Node, I had a great fullstack development workflow, but I struggled to achieve one in Go. What I wanted was the ability to live reload a Go API and debug it with breakpoints while in a container. In this tutorial we’ll setup the ultimate Go and React development setup with Docker.