Devs now embrace alpha/beta software as coding agents make instability cheap
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-10-01
David Khourshid (DavidKPiano) notes a new trend: developers are adopting alpha/beta software more readily because coding agents make breaking changes and instability cheap to handle. Confidence now comes from developers' own test suites rather than someone else's semver promises — a shift that quietly erodes semantic versioning's role as a trust mechanism.
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