In this episode of AppDevANGLE, Paul Nashawaty, Principal Analyst in Application Development, sits down with Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, to explore the growing challenges facing modern software developers. Research indicates that developers spend up to 66% of their time managing environments and addressing maintenance tasks rather than driving innovation, a statistic that underscores the urgent need for new approaches. Rob discusses how Coder is addressing this productivity crisis by moving the entire software development lifecycle to the cloud, leveraging secure, modular, container-based workspaces that streamline coding, onboarding, and continuous integration processes. Listeners will gain insight into how platform engineering is evolving to support scale, security, and the integration of AI coding agents without compromising governance or intellectual property. The conversation also dives into the changing definition of a developer in today’s landscape, where data scientists, low-code users, and “vibe coders” are increasingly contributing to application creation. This shift highlights the importance of centralized governance and standardized environments, achieved through configuration as code and containerized workspaces. Rob explains how these approaches not only accelerate developer productivity but also reduce cloud costs by up to 75% through on-demand and auto-scaling compute. Finally, the episode examines the future of platform engineering: creating secure, sandboxed environments where both human developers and AI agents—treated as untrusted third parties—can safely collaborate, paving the way for more scalable, efficient, and secure software development.