Posts tagged sdlc.
The most valuable thing I do as an engineer right now isn't writing code. It isn't even reviewing code. It's building the harness that lets the agent verify its own work before it asks me to look at it.
The thing nobody talks about with AI-assisted development isn't the models. It's the cycle time. The agent's iteration loop got longer, the right way to work changed, and most people are still working as if the loop is two seconds long.
I haven't written a Linear ticket by hand in six months. I don’t write the majority of my Claude prompts. The two stopped being separate things. The ticket is the prompt.
AI did not make the whole software delivery system faster.
AI-generated tests pass. That's the problem.
The software development lifecycle isn't dead. It just lost its center of gravity.