You say you've got an "AI SDLC"
TL;DR:My DevWorld talk: adding AI to a rigid organization doesn't make it fast — it makes it expensively stuck. Ferrari effect, multi-learning, redesign-then-AI.
I gave this talk at DevWorld on the messy intersection of AI and the software development life cycle. The short version: adding AI to a rigid organization doesn't make it fast — it makes it expensively stuck.
A few of the ideas
The Ferrari effect. Powerful tools, same traffic jam. Speeding up one developer or one team doesn't move global output if everything around them stays slow and siloed. Local optimization isn't system improvement.
Multi-learning. To stay relevant, people have to break out of fixed lanes. Orgs that let staff build diverse skills — contributing across the whole value cycle, not one slice — adapt. The rest calcify.
Redesign, then AI. Fix your processes and team structures first, then apply AI. Automate a good system and you get leverage; automate a broken one and you just make the inefficiency faster.
The two wings. From 10X ORG: cut transaction and switching costs — the two wings of the bird — and the gap you open on competitors gets enormous.
Alexey Krivitsky
Co-author of 10X ORG and co-creator of Org Topologies. Helps organizations rethink, redesign & rewire themselves for the AI era — from the codebase to the boardroom.
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