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Understanding remains the hard part

Three takeaways from Muhammad Waseem at SDLCAI 2026:

1. Check whether a change preserves the wider system.

2. Record decision reasons, constraints and rejected options.

3. Combine deterministic checks with human judgement and value gates.

Paraphrased from “Code Was Never the Hard Part. Understanding Was—and Still Is.”. Watch the full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WaA-EaBqo

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Understanding remains the hard part. Muhammad Waseem at SDLCAI 2026. Three paraphrased talk takeaways: 1. Check whether a change preserves the wider system. 2. Record decision reasons, constraints and rejected options. 3. Combine deterministic checks with human judgement and value gates. sdlcai.org

TALK SUMMARY
https://sdlcai.org/2026/talks/genai-software-engineering/

SOURCE PASSAGES
7:09–11:01 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WaA-EaBqo&t=429s
14:59–16:58 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WaA-EaBqo&t=899s
22:26–24:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_WaA-EaBqo&t=1346s