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Agentic SDLC

An agentic SDLC is a software development lifecycle where AI agents perform meaningful, semi-autonomous work at one or more stages, planning, coding, review, testing, or deployment, under human oversight. It differs from AI-assisted coding by making agents accountable for a full unit of work, not just a suggestion.

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Common questions

How is this different from Copilot-style autocomplete?

Autocomplete assists a human writing code. An agentic SDLC assigns an agent an entire ticket or task and holds it accountable for the result, with a human reviewing the output, not every keystroke.

Which stage should adopt agents first?

Most orgs see the fastest, lowest-risk win in code review and test generation before moving agents into planning or deployment.

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