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HOW SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IS CHANGING: A TALE OF TWO ERAS

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AI-native startups can ship even faster than fast-moving pre-AI startups because they risk nothing by moving too fast. The old constraints of software engineering have disappeared, allowing startups to move faster, but also break things. The new constraints are too much context switching, losing shared context, tougher pacing, less focus on design, and AI plan limits. Many existing technologies and processes will crack under the change.