Comment by Quarrelsome
1 day ago
the fundamental issue remains that there is no objective and reliable measure of developer productivity. So those who experience it (developers) and the business who are isolated from it; end up with different perspectives. This IMHO is going to be the most important factor that fuels "AI first" stories like these, that could dominate our industry over the coming decade.
I don't think the chasm is unbridgable, because ultimately everybody wants the same thing (for the company to prosper) but they fail to entirely appreciate the perspective of the other. Its up to a healthy company organisation to productively address the conflict between the two perspectives. However, I have yet to encounter such a culture of mutal respect and resource allocation.
I fear that agentic AI could erase all the progress we've made on culture in the past 25 years (e.g. agile) and drag us back towards 80s tech culture.
Progress? Agile, and the aftermath (the MVP!), it’s how we got here in the first place!
Seems like you don't remember the 80s, 90s or even early 2000s. Agile was a movement specifically designed to help represent the interests of development in organisations. Obviously business corrupted it over time but the industry before it was considerably worse.
MVPs exist to force business into better defining their requirements. Prior to Agile we'd spend years building something and then we'd deliver it, only for business to then "change their mind", because they've now just realised (now that they have it), that what they asked for was stupid.
Do me a favor and spend a few years in the early 2000's writing enterprise javabeans in a place doing waterfall. Then you'll understand how we ended up with agile.