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The Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is a solid framework which has guided the sequential or semi-sequential nature of project delivery in the Tech industry. The way it has been implemented has changed over the years to a great extent in terms of the scale and complexity of the projects. Agile and other project management methodologies have shortened the time spent on each stage, because they are innately iterative and focus on shipping incremental software in quick intervals. The recent development of an AI ecosystem with increasingly powerful generative AI technologies like ChatGPT has led to many questions. Foremost among these questions are how these developments will necessitate the software industry and development lifecycle itself to undergo a transformation, and whether it will impact the nature of work for millions of Tech professionals worldwide. This paper focuses on the latter of the two questions above - and the authors would like to propose a new SDLC model based on how the different stages of the SDLC will likely undergo a fundamental shift catalyzed by recent advances made in generative AI.