# You say you've got an "AI SDLC"

**Author:** Alexey Krivitsky
**Date:** 2026-06-05
**Reading time:** 2 min
**Category:** Speaking
**Tags:** ai-sdlc, org-design, ferrari-effect, multi-learning, devworld
**Canonical:** https://krivitsky.com/post/you-say-youve-got-an-ai-sdlc

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**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.

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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](/post/the-ferrari-trap).** 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](/post/multi-learning-200-years-wrong-model).** 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](/post/redesign-for-ai-why-transformation-requires-organization-design).** 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](/post/two-wings-of-a-10x-bird).** From 10X ORG: cut transaction and switching costs — the two wings of the bird — and the gap you open on competitors gets enormous.