I was reading Boris Tane’s “The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead” and agree with several of his points, but also understand from >30 years’ XP in industry and a couple years working with GenAI and actively researching neurosymbolic AI for the better part of the past decade, I can see where there are some oversimplifications in his post and some bleedover from the GenAI hype. That being said, and considering he calls out Claude Code in a few places as one of the silver bullets to SWE, I thought what better to analyze Boris’ post and provide counterpoints based on...
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