IACDM: Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology -- A Structured Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16399v2
• Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:42:44 GMT
• Title: IACDM: Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology -- A Structured Framework for AI-Assisted Software Development
• Abstract summary: This paper argues that failures share a structural cause -- the verification gap.<n>We present IACDM, a structured 8-phase framework designed to address the verification gap through external verification agents.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The widespread adoption of AI-assisted development tools in 2025 -- and the emergence of vibe coding, a practice of generating complete applications from natural language without verification -- exposed a critical and tool-agnostic failure pattern: experienced developers who used frontier AI models were measurably slower in objective evaluations despite believing they were faster. Concurrently, 10.3% of AI-generated applications in a production showcase contained critical security flaws. This paper argues that these failures share a structural cause -- the verification gap: every large language model (LLM), regardless of interface or capability, operates as a stochastic generator with zero internal semantic verification capability. The tool is irrelevant; the process is determinative. We present IACDM (Interactive Adversarial Convergence Development Methodology), a structured 8-phase framework designed to address the verification gap through external verification agents (VA) operating at discrete gates. Its three pillars are: (1) deep problem discovery via Hierarchical Semantic Analysis before any technical solution; (2) persistent knowledge management across sessions; and (3) systematic adversarial critique through specialized lenses before implementation. The methodology is tool-agnostic by construction, grounded in established software engineering tradition, and applied across more than 20 projects by multiple practitioners in a production R&D environment. Limitations are formalized as testable hypotheses for future empirical validation.

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