
AI EngineeringNovember 8, 2026 · 24 min read
The Agentic SDLC: Six Levels of AI Adoption
Six levels of AI adoption in the SDLC, from manual work to a dark factory: who does each stage, what a person checks, and why we stop at L4. A first-hand experience of turning a traditional engineering team into an agentic software factory at a SaaS company.