Michael Wielpütz · Co-Founder & CTO, beebucket
The human-gated SDLC.
AI does the synthesis. Humans hold the gates where judgment matters. Here's the pipeline I actually run.
I'm Michael Wielpütz. I run beebucket, where we ship AI-accelerated engineering for organizations that have to stand behind what they build. Everyone has adopted AI; almost no one has decided where the humans stay in the loop. That decision (not the tooling) is the whole game. This is where I think out loud about it.
Adoption is near-universal (~90% per DORA 2025) but only 3.1% of developers highly trust AI output. That's not a capability problem; it's trust and accountability. My answer is a human-gated SDLC (software development life cycle): a nine-phase pipeline with three deliberate human gates (PM Review, Issue Review, Code Review) and AI doing the synthesis in between.
I'll walk your pipeline with you and we'll find where your gates should sit.
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The Human-Gated SDLC
Why the hard part of AI engineering isn't the AI; it's deciding where the humans stay.
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