The Techno-Functional Surge: How AI Agents Collapse Development Silos and Forge New Hybrid Leaders

Enterprise software delivery has long depended on sequential handoffs between specialized roles. Business analysts extracted requirements, product owners translated them into specifications, developers built to those specifications, and QA teams validated the output. Each transition introduced latency, misinterpretation, and rework. The model persisted because it was the available abstraction for managing complexity at human cognitive bandwidth.

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