#The New SDLC

What the development lifecycle looks like once agents sit inside it.

Core themes explored

Continuous PR background watchesReview as the principal engineering gearAutomated second-opinion gatesBudget and token monitoring

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The New SDLC

What was the review ever for?

A page that annoyed me when I resized the window, and a production code path that cost five to ten times what it should have. Neither was a defect, neither would have shown up in a diff, and one of them survived every review I designed.

Matthew PurdonAug 19, 202617 min read

AI-Assisted Engineering

Postman was a workaround

I set out to explore a sparsely documented API in Postman and lasted about an hour before I gave up and built the client I actually wanted. The generic tool was only ever a workaround for a cost that just evaporated: building the specific thing yourself. On why buy-over-build is dying, why most of your code is now disposable, and the access-patterns-to-spec-to-code ritual I build with now.

Matthew PurdonJul 6, 20269 min read

What was the review ever for?

Postman was a workaround

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