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A staircase of six levels, L0 Manual to L5 Dark factory, with 'we stop here' at L4 and a bar for the two human gates under L0–L4
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.

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