--- title: Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO | daily.dev description: An opinion piece addresses AI FOMO among developers, arguing that fundamentals like avoiding N+1 problems, adding pagination, and preventing SQL injection... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO | daily.dev og:description: An opinion piece addresses AI FOMO among developers, arguing that fundamentals like avoiding N+1 problems, adding pagination, and preventing SQL injection... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oBDUfGZ7N.png og:image:alt: Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 1 min read · 165 upvotes · 16 comments ## Summary An opinion piece addresses AI FOMO among developers, arguing that fundamentals like avoiding N+1 problems, adding pagination, and preventing SQL injection matter more than chasing every new AI trend (MCP, agents, new models). The author encourages picking battles selectively rather than trying to keep up with everything, and advocates building real engineering skills before leveraging AI. The post ends with a plug for the author's own paid guide, Street-Smart Coding. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ristotoldsep** · 20 upvotes > N+1 queries don’t care which model launched this week. Good reminder. **@devgenx** · 12 upvotes > It helps to remember that LLMs are just another program we can use to develop software. It still takes a software engineer to know how to use that tool in a productive way, and we already have access to what we need to be productive. Chasing the latest is for the researchers, but if you are involved in production use what you have and what you know works. **@elmarchavez** · 9 upvotes > Fundamentals matter more than ever before. AI is a tool for good engineers to implement best practices and solid fundamentals. **@altbenammi** · 7 upvotes > I have "AI Leave Me Alone" **@aidive** · 4 upvotes > Same on MCP: 63 runs, three servers wired, zero MCP calls. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Does AI Mean You Can Skip the Fundamentals? Here’s What Actually Changed](https://daily.dev/posts/does-ai-mean-you-can-skip-the-fundamentals-here-s-what-actually-changed-ar5tceunh) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n"},"datePublished":"2026-09-28T23:04:16.023Z","dateModified":"2026-09-28T23:04:32.574Z","description":"An opinion piece addresses AI FOMO among developers, arguing that fundamentals like avoiding N+1 problems, adding pagination, and preventing SQL injection...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/abc7e2dc25f7798fbc226f5658d2ed86?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/abc7e2dc25f7798fbc226f5658d2ed86?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DEV","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DEV","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/devto","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},"commentCount":16,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":165},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":16}],"keywords":"ai,career,ai-coding,vibe-coding","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DEV","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Dear Coder: Open This If You're Feeling AI FOMO"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/dear-coder-open-this-if-you-re-feeling-ai-fomo-obdufgz7n","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"N+1 queries don’t care which model launched this week. 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