WebDevPro #125

Where AI actually saves time in modern development workflows

Crafting the Web: Tips, Tools, and Trends for Developers

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Welcome to this week’s issue of WebDevPro!

Aditya Agarwal, Facebook’s 10th employee and former CTO of Dropbox, sparked a wider conversation in the developer community this week after sharing a personal reflection about coding with Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant.

After a weekend building with Claude, he wrote: “It was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again.”

Then he admitted something more surprising: He felt happy, but also disoriented.

Now that isn’t a prediction for “someday.” It’s a workflow shift happening right now.

The real challenge for most teams isn’t access to AI. It’s integration. How do you apply AI to scaffolding, debugging, refactoring, UI generation, and delivery pipelines without disrupting your stack or compromising quality?

That’s why this upcoming Progress workshop stood out to us. It’s designed to help developers integrate AI into real workflows, without losing control over quality, security, or governance.

Webinar: AI for Developers – How to Achieve a 50% Productivity Boost

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If interested, sign up here

This session breaks down technical workflows, architectural considerations, and hands-on demos showing how AI can augment development tasks, without requiring framework changes or replatforming.

We’ll cover topics you care about:

AI‑Assisted Component Scaffolding
How AI can generate baseline UI components, form logic, data-binding structures, and reduce initial setup time.
Debugging & Refactoring Using AI Agents
Techniques for leveraging AI to identify bottlenecks, suggest optimized patterns, and modernize legacy code.
AI‑Enhanced UI Development with Kendo UI & Telerik
Practical examples of generating boilerplate, bindings, CRUD screens, tests, and documentation directly from your existing tech stack.
Integrating AI into Dev Workflows
Where AI fits into CI/CD, code reviews, architectural planning, prototyping, and cross-team collaboration.
How Teams Achieve Measurable Gains (up to 50%)
Real scenarios showing reduced time spent on repetitive implementation tasks, improved code consistency, and faster iteration cycles.
Security & Practical Limitations
What to automate, what not to automate, and how to ensure AI‑generated code aligns with team standards.