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Most of What You're Building Will Be Deleted

AI makes software cheap to produce. That shifts the advantage from preserving code to preserving the reasoning behind it.

Bradley Fernandes17 April 2026First published on LinkedIn
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Core argumentAI makes software cheap to produce. That shifts the advantage from preserving code to preserving the reasoning behind it.