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title: AI changes the backlog
author: Giacomo Balli
published: 2026-07-19
url: https://BigBalli.com/blog/ai-changes-the-backlog
tags: AI, Engineering, Business
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# AI changes the backlog

*By Giacomo Balli* | *Published: July 19, 2026*

AI changes the backlog.

Economically:
Lower implementation cost → lower experimentation threshold → more experiments → more discovered demand.

This is why simply measuring “developer hours saved” badly understates AI’s impact.

The bigger effect may come from projects that previously would never have existed.

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**Tags:** AI, Engineering, Business

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