Nearly a year into the agentic coding explosion, many teams now use AI to write software as their de facto approach. As a result, Anthropic’s engineers are shipping eight times as much code as before, and some engineers are shipping thousands of PRs per month. Management teams expecting their engineering capacity to explode will find that AI-written code doesn’t necessarily compress the software development lifecycle (SDLC) on its own. The critical bottleneck in software creation has shifted from writing code to a later SDLC stage. After coding agents spit out new code, it still needs...

Source: The New Stack