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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Why optimizing for system comprehension is key to implementing AI for software development

Peter Caron

Using AI to merely speed up rote tasks turns top engineers into slop janitors cleaning hallucinated code. Discover why system comprehension is the future of development.

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