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AI-assisted development means individual engineers use AI tools inside an unchanged workflow: the same tickets, review process, and release steps as before. AI native engineering changes the operating model itself. Specifications and shared context become the primary inputs agents work from. Agents take on defined slices of implementation and testing, and verification happens before acceptance. 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