Anthropic sidelines UX in AI-native SDLC playbook

The author argues that AI-native software development lifecycle playbooks from companies like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI focus heavily on code production while sidelining UX research and holistic product design. By reducing UX to behind-the-scenes context or markdown files, organizations risk shipping products that lack user insight, usability testing, and deep problem discovery. The article outlines practical steps UX practitioners can take to retain a role in planning, evaluation, and context management within agentic software factories. Open article →