A few months ago, I asked whether AI could help fully automate backend systems for a founder-led app. The response was not just doubt; I was trolled for even asking. Over the past few weeks, I kept working on it with Codex and AI Satya. The result is not blind automation, but an approval-based workflow where AI helps with backend modernization, deployment scripts, testing, technical handovers, and release evidence. I’m sharing this as a real founder experiment in AI-assisted engineering, not as ...