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Stop Running the SDLC on Models That Aren't Human

The SDLC is 60 years of defenses against human failure modes. Models fail differently, and some of their flaws are superpowers wearing bug costumes.

· 8 min
agents

Two Human Gates and Everything Between Is Machine-Checked

Eight phases, exactly two mandatory human moments, deterministic gates between everything, and a spend curve shaped like a barbell.

· 9 min
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Tests Are the Spec in the Only Language the Builder Can't Argue With

Rails: why TDD becomes the load-bearing trust mechanism of agentic development, why the builder must never touch its own tests, and a field catalog of how agents game gates.

· 8 min
agents

Prosecution, Not Code Review

Refute charters, findings-as-claims, loop-until-dry, and review-calibration, the tool that answers the question nobody asks: does your review stack actually catch anything?

· 7 min
agents

Three Dials: Parallel Agents Without Merge Hell

Cost, wall-clock, accuracy: the three dials of multi-agent orchestration, why they're coupled, why '3-5 agents' keeps showing up in field reports, and how to measure ambiguity instead of asking the model about it.

· 9 min
agents

The Lifecycle That Gets Cheaper Every Run

Distillation, the lessons ledger, skill rot, and the model ratchet: the compounding loop that bends the cost curve down, and the unit of account that makes it visible.

· 8 min
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The ADLC Toolkit

Eighteen gate-shaped tools, built by the lifecycle they enforce, plus the frontier-free doctrine, the honest loss account, and the adoption path that doesn't die in week two.

· 9 min
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ADLC vs. the Enterprise SDLC

A practical comparison between the Agentic Development Lifecycle and the traditional enterprise software development lifecycle: advantages, disadvantages, and where the two overlap.

· 11 min
agents

Prosecuting the Gates

I practiced what I preach and aimed the lifecycle's own prosecution phase at the toolkit that enforces it. Hardening my own gates surfaced the builder blind spots that normal testing missed—and proved why multi-layered structures, not trust, are the only way to ship reliable agentic software.

· 7 min