Where the Collapsed Lifecycle Breaks
Boris Tane argues in The Software Development Lifecycle is Dead that AI agents have collapsed the traditional staged software development lifecycle (SDLC) into a single intent-build-observe loop, and that the classic lifecycle is dead. The tinkerer in me who spent the weekend experimenting with OpenCode and GitHub Copilot wants to believe. But most systems that matter store state. And the former DBA in me is not convinced we are ready for a fully collapsed lifecycle. ...