https://polyreq.com/blog/ Essays on the ADLC. Governing AI agents, living specification graphs, impact analysis and keeping understanding of software that AI writes. en Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://polyreq.com/blog/requirements-decide-what-ai-builds/ https://polyreq.com/blog/requirements-decide-what-ai-builds/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Requirements defects reach production four times more often than coding defects. Why nothing in your pipeline catches them, and what agents changed. https://polyreq.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-cost/ https://polyreq.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-cost/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 What one change is really made of, why a wrong start grows as it travels, how understanding leaks at every handoff, and why AI makes both worse. https://polyreq.com/blog/enterprise-path-to-adlc/ https://polyreq.com/blog/enterprise-path-to-adlc/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Follow one change request through today’s AI-assisted lifecycle and through the ADLC. Impact maps in minutes, briefs for agents, delivery with proof. https://polyreq.com/blog/from-sdlc-to-adlc/ https://polyreq.com/blog/from-sdlc-to-adlc/ Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 AI is making writing code cheap and helps with design and analysis too, but that help has holes. It is only as reliable as the picture of the system it works from. Where the classic SDLC breaks under agent-speed delivery, and what the ADLC replaces it with.