Stop Asking AI to Write Your Backend Code

Every time you ask an AI to generate a backend, something slightly annoying happens: it writes 200 lines of TypeScript, picks its own folder structure, names things its own way, and somewhere in the middle it hallucinates an import that doesn't exist. You then spend 20 minutes fixing what should've taken 2. The thing is, this isn't really the AI's fault. You asked it to do too much. What Terraform figured out Think about how Terraform works. When you want to provision infrastructure, you don't ask an AI to write raw AWS API calls. That's complex, verbose, and easy to get wrong. Instead, you describe what you want : resource "aws_s3_bucket" "my_bucket" { bucket = "my-app-storage" acl = "private" } And Terraform handles the rest. The AI only needs to learn a small, constrained language. The hard work is handled by the system. The same idea applies to backend generation. We've just been too slow to notice. What we're doing wrong today The current AI-for-backend workflow looks like this: U