Introducing a new O’Reilly Guide: “The AI-Enabled SDLC”

The upcoming book "The AI-Enabled SDLC: A Tech Leader’s Guide to Navigating the Future of Software Development" by Eran Yahav and Brent Laster, scheduled for release by O’Reilly Media in early 2025, aims to guide technical leaders and engineers in integrating AI into the traditional software development life cycle (SDLC). This guide explores how AI can enhance each of the seven core stages of the SDLC—planning, creation, testing, fixing, documentation, explanation, and maintenance—by offering practical advice on adapting current processes and adopting AI tools. The book promises to provide insights into the use of AI for generating code, automating unit tests, improving code documentation, and facilitating code translation, among other applications. The authors have adopted a rapid release strategy, making the first three chapters available to offer early insights into the impact of large language models (LLMs) and AI coding assistants on software development, while additional chapters will address unprecedented challenges such as optimizing AI tool context awareness and simplifying code translation.