RIP Developers – Welcome to AI’s Dark Side
"Developers are dead."
You've seen the takes. You've watched the demos. You've heard it in every VC pitch deck.
Here's what nobody's saying out loud: every AI product that actually ships to production still has a developer at 3 AM debugging hallucinations, babysitting infrastructure, and explaining to stakeholders why the "simple AI solution" now needs three humans to keep it from catching fire.
We cannot give code a human mind. No matter how much you prompt it, AI still doesn't understand trade-offs, taste, business context, or why your PM's "simple change" is actually a nightmare.
So are developers dying — or just being reborn as the overworked AI wranglers keeping this whole circus from burning down?
In this fireside chat, we'll get into:
— What "AI-native" development actually looks like when it hits production
— The hidden complexity no LLM pitch deck mentions: auth, infra, cost monitoring, the 3 AM incidents
— How AI shifts the developer's focus from writing code to product thinking — and what that means for founders building with small teams
— The real risks: $100K surprise Anthropic bills, hallucinated database schemas, systems that were supposed to be autonomous but need three humans to babysit
No hype. No doom. Just a direct, honest conversation between two people who are in the trenches.
SPEAKERS
Pavlin Dobrev, PhD — Director, Bosch Digital Director at Bosch Digital, Bosch's internal digital and IT engine, where he oversees quality management and a portfolio of research and client projects. Co-founder of BASSCOM (Bulgarian Association of Software Companies).
Holds a PhD in AI with a specialization in information extraction, knowledge representation, and NLP, and brings over 25 years of hands-on experience in AIoT — spanning cloud, industrial automation, cybersecurity, and AI-powered connected systems.
A regular speaker at international tech conferences, Pavlin sparked this conversation with a widely-shared post on what developers are actually becoming in the AI era.
Vesko Kolev - Co-founder and CEO of Icanpreneur, an AI startup validation platform built around IVA — an AI co-founder that guides founders through customer discovery, buyer persona development, and go-to-market strategy before they build.
Icanpreneur has been adopted by accelerators and university entrepreneurship programs across Europe, integrated into THWS Business School's Master's program, and recognized with a Forbes Innovation Award for AI Transformation.
Save your spot. It's free. The recording will be available on YouTube afterward, but live attendees can ask questions in real time.