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AI-era delivery
Agile isn't dead. It's running on assumptions AI already broke.
Agile's values still hold, but many of its ceremonies were designed for a time when human effort was the bottleneck and feedback had to wait for a meeting. Now that AI has sped up how fast features get built, rituals like the sprint-end demo are turning into process kept alive for the organization rather than for the work. The practical fix is to name the assumption behind each ceremony and check whether it is still true.
AI made your team write code faster. Your delivery didn't notice.
AI coding tools have sharply increased how much code teams produce, but not how much they ship. CircleCI's analysis of more than 28 million workflows and an NBER study of AI coding agents both found output rising far faster than releases. The bottleneck moved to review and accountability, and teams need quality bars built for AI-sized output.