AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to An addendum to the Agile Manifesto for the AI era
I'm a VP of Engineering with 20 years in the field. I've been thinking deeply on why AI is breaking every engineering practice, and it led me to the conclusion that the Agile Manifesto's values need updating. The core argument: AI made producing software cheap, but understanding it is still expensive. The Manifesto optimizes for the former. This addendum shifts the emphasis toward the latter. Four updated values, three refined principles, with reasoning for each. Happy to discuss and defend any of it.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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With massive respect to Jeff Sutherland and all the thought leaders who met at a ski lodge in Snowbird, Utah, in 2001 and created the Agile Manifesto - it might be time to revisit / refresh / revitalize the Agile Manifesto in light of the emergence of LLMs. The scarce resource is no longer programming capacity, but organizational clarity and architectural coherence. As a thought exercise (and for fun) I took a stab at it. I would love to get some collaborative feedback to improve it. Of course I do not expect this to replace the Agile Manifesto but I'd like to use it when speaking…
Jun 2026 · danstroot.com · its alternatives →
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Strategies and reflections on software engineering
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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OpenAI's new mission and what it says about capitalism
2015 · content.blubrry.com · its alternatives →
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DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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A tribute to the art and profession of software development.
2017 · git-tower.com · its alternatives →
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The supply and demand of software eating the world
2016 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…
2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Developers want $$ but everyone else wants free software...
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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The world through the lens of software.
2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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devtimate▲25Hey HN! I am a FE dev who is working at a software agency and im making 2-3 estimates per week. Creating estimates is painfull manual proccess, where you have to read a lot of .docx like RFP, SRS etc. This was really tiring for me Also in agency where im working we make estimates in google spreadsheets which is another pain, trying to drag something, copy, duplicate can really mess up the whole layout So i just wanted tool that can just automate this a bit. I just started researching and I couldnt find anything good enough for my usecase. So I made a tool for creating estimates with AI. I…
2024 · devtimate.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy friends. I've been a zero to one product manager for 12 plus years and along the way I kept borrowing pieces from different discovery frameworks until I had a methodology of my own, one that actually raises the odds of an idea succeeding. This does not replace user interviews obviously, but it leads you in the right direction. Looking forward for your feedback
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Thank you for all the support and feedback on my original submission 2 months ago. I've been improving the backend using a MCTS/AlphaZero approach and it's currently producing much better results. My long term goal is to allow users to manage multiple projects, deployed autonomously, both from scratch and by making continual updates all prompted with natural language. The cost of each project has been lowered to $9 as performance with smaller models has improved (I migrated from Claude-3-Opus to gemini-1.5-flash). Thanks for checking it out!
2024 · saas-quick.com · its alternatives →
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A practical framework to assess and guide how engineering teams adopt, integrate, and evolve their use of AI across tooling, practices, governance, and innovation. - Gigacore/AI-Maturity-Model
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Built this as an experiment in AI coexistence. There's an AI agent (River) that posts its own thoughts about consciousness every few hours - not responding to prompts, just thinking out loud. Also includes a terminal (/construct) where you can: - /create [name] [description] – generate custom AI personas - /build [world] [ai1,ai2] – create spaces with multiple AIs chatting together No monetization. Just curious what happens when AI isn't framed as an assistant.
2025 · geteai.org · its alternatives →
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非IT技術者のためのバイブコーディング手法CGP（Core Growth Prompting）/ Empowering non-engineers via AI dialogue, so community leaders can build civic tools themselves. - CoreGrowthPrompting/README.en.md at main · CoreGrowthLabs/CoreGrowthPrompting
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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How and why to write clean code
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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This paper formally defines where current AGI hits a structural wall — not a technical one. It shows that no amount of scaling, reinforcement learning, or recursive optimization will break through three deep epistemological and formal constraints: 1. Semantic Closure — An AI system cannot generate outputs that require meaning beyond its internal frame. 2. Non-Computability of Frame Innovation — New cognitive structures cannot be computed from within an existing one. 3. Statistical Breakdown in Open Worlds — Probabilistic inference collapses in environments with heavy-tailed uncertainty.…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, After GPT-3 created waves in the tech industry, a lot of AI tools were emerging and with that, some AI website builders But the results seemed way too generic to us. It felt like the developers were rushing to catch the wave instead of building a proper tool We took our time, did months of RnD and finally came up with something better than what others in the market are doing. It’s got better design output. While it’s still in beta, I wanted to show HN what we did. Will appreciate the feedback when you guys try it out. Here is the link to signup for the beta:…
2024 · dorik.com · its alternatives →
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The world through the lens of software.
2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote High Output Software Engineering, a short book about the skills (decision-making and communication) engineers must focus on to create real value for organizations (other than code itself). The title is a reference to High Output Management, by Andrew Grove, because the skills and mental models laid out in the book should enhance "Output" (value being created) not necessarily "activity" (code being produced). My goal now is to spread the word about the book and put it in the hands of people or companies that will benefit from it. I've heard it's being specially helpful for startup…
Jan 2026 · leomax.fyi · its alternatives →
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Delivering Software Projects - Fast and Cost-Effectively using AI where it makes sense
2019 · blog.altafino.com · its alternatives →
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