Rethink Your Understanding

Agile Isn’t Dead and AI Isn’t Killing It Either


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I keep seeing “Agile is dead” headlines, now repackaged for the AI era. My take: AI isn’t killing Agile. AI is illuminating constraints that were already in the value stream.

AI can do market research, write documentation, write code fast - it can’t take accountability. As AI compresses execution time, rebundles responsibilities, and enables smaller teams with faster release cycles, the real work shifts to human judgment: decision-making, validation, security, governance, and operating safely in production.

This episode reframes Agile and agility as an enduring capability, and explores what must evolve when software delivery accelerates dramatically with AI.

Link to the article: Agile Isn’t Dead and AI Isn’t Killing It Either, originally published January 24, 2026.

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Rethink Your UnderstandingBy Phil Clark