"The new lifecycle is tighter loop
The SDLC was a wide loop. Requirements → Design → Code → Test → Review → Deploy → Monitor. Linear. Sequential. Full of handoffs and waiting.

The new lifecycle is a tight loop.

Intent. Build. Observe. Repeat.

No tickets. No sprints. No story points. No PRs sitting in a queue. No separate QA phase. No release trains.

Just a human with intent and an agent that executes.

So what is left?
Context. That’s it.

The quality of what you build with agents is directly proportional to the quality of context you give them. Not the process. Not the ceremony. The context.

The SDLC is dead. The new skill is context engineering. The new safety net is observability.

And most of the industry is still configuring Datadog dashboards no one looks at."

https://boristane.com/blog/the-software-development-lifecycle-is-dead/

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