Organic Development is a software development methodology born in the AI era. The name combines 有 (human) and 機 (machine)—humans and AI working as a single unit. This working paper documents the methodology derived from a real project: one person working with AI over 10 months to build an enterprise-grade system of 100,000 lines of code. The paper presents six core principles—knowledge-base driven development, human-AI dialogue, explicit rule-making, engineering capability over coding skills, human judgment with AI execution, and exploratory architecture. It defines five evolution stages based on the changing human role, from simple prompting to fully autonomous AI teams. Evidence comes from the SPF project, which achieved 16x traditional productivity baselines. This is a practitioner's account based on a single project (N=1). The methodology is evolving with AI capability. Chinese version included as supplementary file.
Bo Sun (Tue,) studied this question.