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SDLC for the Age of AI

The software lifecycle rebuilt so speed answers to evidence.

Cover of SDLC for the Age of AI: an engineer and a small robot stand together looking out over a city at first light.

Code got cheap. Certainty didn't.

AI writes plausible code faster than any review can keep honest. You never took a developer's word for it either, and "works on my machine" was never proof. Tests, reviews and pipelines exist because trust in software was always supposed to be earned with evidence.

This book takes that instinct to its conclusion and rebuilds the development lifecycle around it: people define what must be true and judge what ships, machines build the change and prove it against those criteria, and anything unproven does not get in.

Paperback 122 pagesKindle

What is in it

  1. The Inversion
  2. The Specification
  3. The Proof
  4. The Independent Review
  5. The Green Gate
  6. The Plan
  7. Small and Reversible
  8. The Fleet
  9. The Release
  10. The Shape of the System
  11. The Incident
  12. The Attack Surface
  13. Tokens of Effort
  14. Adoption
  15. What Done Means Now

The method is free

The method is on this site in full, and the reference implementation is open source. Nothing here is a teaser for the book. What the book adds is the argument, the reasoning behind each rule, and the account of building the thing these documents describe.