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The Agentic Development Protocol: A Self-Falsifying Process Standard for Shipping Production Software with AI Agent Teams

Teams adopting AI coding agents report a consistent paradox: velocity rises while trust falls. In a randomized controlled trial, experienced developers took 19% longer to complete real tasks with early-2025 AI tools, while estimating after the fact that AI had made them 20% faste...