Three Eras, Side by Side¶
A practical model for understanding where your team is today and what AI-native progress really means.
Why this chapter matters¶
Shared language reduces confusion. This chapter helps teams distinguish traditional, AI-assisted, and AI-native ways of working without overclaiming maturity.
Key points for your team¶
This chapter is a positioning tool. It helps teams avoid speaking past each other by defining concrete differences between traditional, AI-assisted, and AI-native loops.
Use it to make planning discussions more honest: if the loop has not changed, you are optimizing execution speed, not redesigning delivery. That distinction is useful, especially when prioritizing platform and governance investments.
What to review with your team¶
For team discussion, focus on how this chapter can be translated into explicit workflow decisions and accountability points.
In the session context, Three eras. Traditional: humans do every stage, AI is absent. Use that framing to align engineering, platform, and governance stakeholders on concrete next steps.
Put this into practice¶
Choose the row in the maturity table that best describes your current loop and define one change needed to move to the next stage.