Perspectives

License an AI coding assistant, roll it out to the team, wait for velocity to show up in the numbers. The first draft does come faster. That part is real, and it's also the entire extent of what changes on its own.

Your engineers are already using Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, and other AI tools. But if requirements, architecture, development, testing, review, and release still operate the same way, you haven't built an AI-native SDLC. You've built an AI-augmented one.

The word "agentic" gets attached to almost anything with a chat interface right now, so it's worth being precise about what it actually means before mapping it to the deal lifecycle. Three distinct levels get sold under the same word, and the difference between them is exactly where a vendor's claim tends to fall apart.