Don’t Bolt AI Onto the Old SDLC

Building software got cheap. So teams are strapping AI onto the same old product-to-design-to-engineering relay and calling it a transformation.

That is the trap. Bolt AI onto the old SDLC and all you have done is speed up a broken handoff. The relay was built to protect engineering time, back when writing code was the expensive part. It isn’t anymore. So why are we still running the race the same way?

This week, Flint Barrow makes the case that to really transform your process with AI, you don’t optimize it. You rebuild it from the ground up.

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