Opinion: backward compatibility matters less if your docs are great for agents
andreisavu · x · 2026-10-07
The author argues that library backward compatibility becomes irrelevant as long as you provide great documentation for an AI agent to work through everything that needs to change during an upgrade — suggesting agentic coding is reshaping how libraries should be maintained and documented.
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