SMRTR ProgrammingMay 5, 2026Medium

Software Development Is Getting An Unexpected Second Chance

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AI gets a lot of blame for making software worse, but there's an underexplored angle worth considering: enablement. AI allows developers to experiment and fail fast at near-zero cost — something that was never truly possible before. Tasks that once took teams months can now be tackled quickly, opening up a new era of low-risk experimentation in pure software engineering.

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