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Modern Agile is Stupid: on why all great ideas are killed by idiots

15 points| swolebrain | 11 months ago |medium.com

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ben30|11 months ago

Clear specifications are essential because they create shared understanding through collaborative discussion, preventing misalignment and expensive rework.

With AI-assisted coding, well-defined requirements have become even more crucial as these tools follow instructions precisely but lack business context.

The investment in proper definition isn't wasteful "meta-work" but rather insurance against the much higher cost of rebuilding the wrong solution.

D13Fd|11 months ago

This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the article.

pacifika|11 months ago

It’s interesting how the author makes the same mistake with the title. It’s not agile that is stupid. Actually it’s original manifesto mentions specifically: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Seeing them as peers instead of ‘idiots’ would also help.

cassianoleal|11 months ago

The author seems to like the original ideas of the manifesto and I don't see where he's called its authors idiots.

In fact, the title specifically says "modern agile" is bad, which implies what came after its initial proposal. In the conclusion, its also stated that the Manifesto "is very clearly an anti-prescription stance. And it’s a good stance."