Why the SDLC Is Cracking Under the Weight of AI (opens in new tab)

Why the SDLC Is Cracking Under the Weight of AI Three decades of engineering orthodoxy and the shift no one is talking about clearly enough I've been thinking a lot about a specific kind of organizational irony that I'm watching play out across engineering teams right now. A company buys into the AI productivity narrative — they roll out GitHub Copilot, or Claude, or some combination of both — and for the first two weeks, developers feel like superheroes. Code that used to take a day takes an...