Owning the Agentic SDLC: How NodeSource Reclaimed Control of AI Development
TL;DR: When AI-assisted development moved from autocomplete to agentic workflows, the bottleneck for our engineering velocity stopped being the model and started being the vendor. Owning our own orchestration layer, running the same upstream agent stack across multiple developer surfaces, wrapping every change in a version-controlled spec, and treating the agent calls themselves as first-class telemetry is what made spec-driven development practical for us at NodeSource.