Veteran Dev Warns: AI Speed Masks Fundamental Flaws in Agile Workflows
Al_Shalloway · reddit · 2026-08-05
A developer with 27 years of experience argues that the current obsession with AI is mostly focused on speed, which threatens to lock teams into bad existing workflows.
He identifies significant issues in popular Agile methods, such as failing to understand true consuming stakeholder needs, poor acceptance criteria, and bad value creation structures. Using AI to accelerate these flawed processes will simply help teams produce mediocre products faster, losing any competitive edge.
Instead, he advocates for using systems thinking and scientific approaches to address foundational workflow challenges before simply applying AI for speed.
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