What changed when AI started writing software, what the evidence says, and what leaders should build next. One point of view, three ways in.
The full argument in 36 A4 pages: seven findings, twenty chapters, the evidence behind every number. Best for reading, printing and sharing.
Open the PDF → The interactive editionClick through the evidenceThe same book as 38 spreads. Evidence-marked numbers open their source record, charts respond to hover, and each chapter links to its PDF page and its place on the canvas.
Open the interactive book → The companion toolSDLC Evolution CanvasNine phases, six eras, 1970 to 2030. See who does the work, where it sticks and how the bottleneck moved. Three ways in: the macro map, a page for each era, and a graphical canvas of the whole shift.
Explore the canvas →The PDF is the argument. The interactive edition lets you check it. The canvas puts it on the map of the whole software lifecycle. Each chapter links across.
| Part of the argument | PDF chapters | Interactive spreads | On the canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Part I · Code got cheap | 1 to 4 | Ch 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 | AI-assisted and Agentic eras |
| Part II · Trust got harder | 5 to 8 | Ch 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 | Agentic: review and verification are the bottleneck |
| Part III · New economics, new building blocks | 9 to 12 | Ch 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 | Intelligence view: decision models |
| Part IV · Verified delegation | 13 to 16 | Ch 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 | Governed delegation era |
| Part V · People and the road ahead | 17 to 20 | Ch 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 | Three futures in the last era |
All three use the same evidence marks and the same sources. A company’s statement about its own product is not a controlled study.