The software development lifecycle is collapsing. Not slowly. Right now.
AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They made it irrelevant. Requirements, design, implementation, testing, review, deployment, monitoring: the seven stages that shaped how we build software for decades are compressing into a single loop. What replaces them is BOIS: Build, Observe, Iterate, Ship.
Hi BOIS is the argument for what comes next, for engineers, engineering leaders, and the organizations they run. It doesn't flinch from the hard questions: who verifies the verifier, what happens when the agent is confidently wrong, and which roles don't survive the transition. This isn't a balanced survey. It's a playbook. And it starts from the assumption that the collapse has already happened.