# Solutioning in the Age of AI (Ep. 166)

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Podcast: [Never Rewrite: Software Engineering & AI Coding](https://stenobird.com/podcast/never-rewrite-software-engineering-ai-coding-6208168)
Published: 2026-07-31T13:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 1074

## Resource

Isaac & Jeffrey discuss how delivering incredibly literal acceptance criteria ('solutioning') changes when the engineering work pivots to the AI agent rather than a human engineer.

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