{"type":"post","slug":"anthropic-ai-native-sdlc-playbook","title":"Anthropic AI-Native SDLC Playbook","description":"Anthropic's playbook argues the software lifecycle, not code generation, is now the constraint: the six stages survive but stop being discrete phases owned by separate roles.","retrieval_nugget":"Anthropic's playbook argues the software lifecycle, not code generation, is now the constraint: the six stages survive but stop being discrete phases owned by separate roles.","published_at":"2026-08-31","updated_at":"2026-09-12","record_date":"2026-08-21","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["agents","ai","ai-software","coding-agents"],"entities":["Anthropic","Claude"],"source_url":"https://claude.com/blog/the-ai-native-sdlc-playbook","source_title":"The AI-Native SDLC 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