Why Agile Breaks in an AI World
For years, Agile was treated as the answer to software development. Standups. Sprints. Story points. Velocity. It gave teams structure in a world where building software was slow, expensive, and uncertain. But that world no longer exists. AI has changed the economics of software development — and Agile hasn’t caught up. Agile Was Built for a Different Problem Agile emerged in a time when: Writing code was slow Changing direction was expensive Planning too far ahead was risky So we adapted. We broke work into: small tasks short iterations continuous feedback loops It made sense. Because the bottleneck was production . Getting code written was the hardest part. AI Eliminates the Old Bottleneck Today, tools like GitHub Copilot can generate: entire features APIs UI components test scaffolding …in seconds. Suddenly, writing code is no longer the constraint. So what happens to a methodology designed to optimize… writing code? It starts to crack. The “Ceremony Economy”...