Robert Glaser arguing that Scrum was created before AI with constraints that, in the age of AI, are no longer present.
Sprint planning, estimation, standups, user stories, ticket grooming, handoffs, all the ceremony around coordination and risk reduction. Reasonable, given the constraints. If a single iteration takes days or weeks, you need structures that prevent people from wasting too many of them.
But agentic engineering changes the economics: It makes more options materializable! It lets teams move from intent to prototype to evaluation much faster. It lets product people see working software earlier. It lets engineers test more hypotheses before committing. It does not magically make delivery easy, but it moves the constraint away from implementation and toward intent, verification, judgment, and feedback.
The awkward thing is that many organizations spent twenty years calling themselves agile while preserving the organizational reflexes agile was supposed to remove. Now AI makes real agility more plausible, and the system still asks for two-week sprint commitments, handoff documents, and all the stuff that assumes iteration is scarce.
That is the ceremony graveyard again, but now at adoption level. The loop can move faster than the organization can metabolize what the loop learned.