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Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are?
Good engineers apply modern best practices – automated testing, refactoring, small and frequent releases, continuous delivery – and design systems to stay adaptable under change. They pair this with a product mindset, making technical decisions in service of real user and business outcomes. It’s currently being labelled “product engineering” and talked about as the hot new thing, but it’s essentially agile software development as it was originally intended. In the AI-assisted era, these aren’t just nice-to-have skills – they’re the only way to get meaningful benefit. Without them, AI simply helps teams create bad software faster.