Consulting Firms Push Cookie-Cutter 'Agentic SDLC' Frameworks, Vet Slams the Playbook
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-10-10
The author counts three 'agentic SDLC' offerings from big consulting firms in a single week — each packaging product-owner, architect, developer, and autonomous-tester agents behind a slick four-minute video.
His verdict: it's a repeating playbook — wrap a methodology in the 'agentic' label and convince enterprises they need a proprietary framework instead of the existing software tooling that already works. Drawing on years of running SDLCs, he argues these videos never address the real engineering trade-offs of assembling agent teams.
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