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You are a developer, you just do not call it that: what changed in v1.2.0
From v1.1.0 (2026-10-19, 88af9da07) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot yd-roles.webp | images/ | One GenAI founder, many roles. In the middle,roles: the founder who says "I am not a developer, I just tellat the model what to do". Around them, what they actually do every day: senior stakeholder and business owner (decides what matters and pays for it), product owner (writes the requirements), designer, developer and engineer (builds, with agents), release manager (continuous deployment),centre and the head of a development team (the agents). Each of those is a job titletitles inthey ahold technologyaround company.them. | concept
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!shot yd-iceberg.webp | images/ | TheAn icebergiceberg: they never saw. Aboveabove the waterline,waterline what a user ofsees, below it what polished products sees: the interface and the demo, about 10% of the work in Joel Spolsky's 2002 estimate. Below it, what was there when those products were new:built the back end and the data; versioning; validation, authentication and authorisation; resilience; the release pipeline and real users. On the left, what founders saw, such as the iPhone launched on a golden path of taps; on the right, what they meet now that they build: versioning, stability and security.on. | concept
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