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.
An addendum to the Agile Manifesto for the AI era launched on March 13, 2026 with 7 votes, #1,458 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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An addendum to the Agile Manifesto for the age of AI - brackishman/Agile-Manifesto-AI-Addendum
"At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly." — Principle 12 AI decoupled production from comprehension. Teams can now ship working software that nobody on the team understands. When the manifesto was written, working software meant someone understood the problem enough to write, debug, and test every line of code. Someone necessarily understood all implementation choices made along the way. With AI, this is no longer true. Original: "Working software is the primary measure of progress." This principle is now actively misleading. Working software is no longer evidence that anyone understood the problem, designed…from github.com
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