FEATURE: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
This approach echoes a core DevOps principle: build quality in at every step rather than bolting it on at the end. The 2024 DORA data supports this, showing that heavy AI use without controls correlates with a 7.2 % drop in delivery stability. UST’ s five-stage pipeline avoids that outcome, ensuring AI adoption drives performance without sacrificing reliability.
Conclusion – A call to action
Vibe coding has put natural language at the centre of software creation. What separates leaders from laggards isn’ t the IDE – it’ s the discipline to earn production.
Pair AI speed with spec-first development, human hardening and policy-as-code gates so prototypes don’ t ship debt or risk.
Act this quarter: pick one high-impact journey, enforce Track-A / Track-B with a Promotion PR, wire gates for tests, secrets / PII, output sanitisation, SAST / DAST and SBOM, publish a DORA + AI KPI dashboard( acceptance rate, AI-tagged CFR, eval pass rate, cost per accepted suggestion) and make no-shadow-AI non-negotiable.
Speak intent, synthesise fast – then prove it safe. p
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