Is programmatic SEO dead after AI Overviews?

No — it changed shape. Thin, undifferentiated programmatic pages are dead (they were dying before AI Overviews). What works in 2026: programmatic pages with real data, clear topical structure, and answer-first formatting that AI systems can cite. Roughly 40% of searches now surface AI answers, and those answers need sources — being the cited source is the new position one. The pipeline is the same (keywords → topical map → pages); the quality bar and the citability engineering are what moved.