The post asking whether ChatGPT's 'production ready' verdict was trustworthy [4] is the clearest signal of where the r/webdev conversation has arrived. The developer was not asking how to build a backend — they already had one. They were asking whether to trust an AI's judgment about their own system's readiness for production load. That is a structural shift: the AI is no longer a code generator but an evaluator, and the developer's job is to audit the evaluator. The problem is that this auditing role requires exactly the backend…