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06 The Museum of Workflows

Published 25 May 2026 PDF 1 resource
A warning against the most seductive failure mode of the agentic transition: importing the existing SDLC wholesale and pointing agents at it. The paper distinguishes SDLC, AI-SDLC, and Agentic ADLC, argues that retrofitting agents into human-shaped lifecycle stages produces a "faster horse" instead of a car, and challenges engineering leaders to design lifecycles native to machine workers rather than industrialise yesterday's rituals. Dedicated "for every engineering leader asked to industrialise a miracle."

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