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World Congress 2026 North America • Sep 25, 2026 • Session details

The Broken Rung: How AI is Rebuilding Software Development from the Ground Up

Tomislav Tipurić

AI didn't just break the junior developer pipeline. It is triggering a massive synthetic debt crisis. Discover how to rebuild your engineering teams to survive this disruption.

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