# Seven stages of building software with AI across the development lifecycle

DevFeed: [Seven stages of building software with AI across the development lifecycle](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-7-stages-of-building-software-with-ai-with-prompts-you-can-steal-18323.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.aiengineer.co/p/the-7-stages-of-building-software>)

Author: Owain Lewis

Published: 2026-03-06T13:15:47Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The AI Engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-ai-engineer.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-coding.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [evals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evals.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents a seven-stage software lifecycle--requirements, design, task breakdown, building, review, deployment, and monitoring--and explains how AI can support each stage, not only code generation. It emphasizes planning and documented requirements, describing how they helped guide an AI agent and generate evaluations on a client project.

## Source excerpt

Real prompts for planning, building, reviewing, and shipping software with AI agents