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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-16T12:54:50.000Z",
  "site": "https://devops.com",
  "tags": [
    "AI",
    "Blogs",
    "Business of DevOps",
    "Features",
    "News",
    "Social - Facebook",
    "Social - LinkedIn",
    "Social - X",
    "AI code generation",
    "AI-assisted development",
    "apprenticeship",
    "architecture",
    "code governance",
    "code oversight",
    "democratization of coding",
    "developer productivity",
    "developer supervision",
    "end of programming myth",
    "governance era",
    "industrialized programming",
    "integration risk",
    "maintainability",
    "operations",
    "security risk",
    "software reliability",
    "systems thinking",
    "technical debt",
    "validation"
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  "textContent": "AI agents can now generate in minutes what once took teams weeks, but the real shift is not faster coding. It is the collapse of code scarcity. As software production becomes industrialized, the job of engineers is moving from writing lines to governing systems, managing risk and deciding what should exist in the first place.",
  "title": "When Code Becomes Cheap, Engineering Becomes Governance"
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