AI ENGINEERING
26 September 2026 · 11 MIN READ
AI-DLC in a Team: the Agent Is No Longer the Bottleneck
In January I used AI-DLC alone, one developer and one agent in an IDE. This month I deployed AIDLC Collaborative, the open-source sample that runs the same method for a whole team: intents, human gates, parallel construction lanes, agents in isolated AgentCore sessions, and a platform that owns git. Two intents with the same 48 minutes of agent work took 81 and 284 minutes end to end. Here is what the team version changes, what it costs to stand up, the failure that painted 14 empty stages green, and what I have not verified yet.
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