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Nick Williams Paving the Road for the Robots #slashnew26

The Developer Experience platform and the AI Experience platform are the same platform. If you deferred building it for your people, you must now build it for your machines - and your people will benefit too #slashnew26

The hard truth We should have built these platforms to support our people. We often didn't. We treated it as deferrable. We relied on the invisible effort of experienced engineers to absorb the friction of inconsistent environments. We told ourselves we'd get to it.

Now we are in the AI era. And the deferral has reached its limit. GenAI will not work in the long run without strict, fully enforced guardrails. Prompts are not enough. Coding guidelines in an AGENT.md are not enough. 2/3