ADLC: move agent judgment upstream into specs and review

What the research found

SD Times piece argues agentic development life cycle (ADLC) moves human judgment upstream into specification, experiments, and review design, with production issues feeding durable artifacts back into the loop.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

1. A team built a third system in five weeks with two engineers instead of twelve engineers over one year 99%
2. ADLC adds an experimentation stage before requirements with predefined kill criteria 98%
3. Production issues should produce durable artifacts such as contract clauses, regression tests, or shared context updates 98%

Evidence

• sdtimes.com https://sdtimes.com/agentic-development-life-cycle/adlc-why-judgment-must-move-upstream

Actionability rated low.