The Merchants of Complexity: Why AI Finally Delivers What Agile Promised

The era of scarcity is over. Why paying the "Agile Tax" in a world of verifiable code is financial negligence.

Agile is dead.

I posted this on LinkedIn yesterday, and the reaction was intense. Over 150 comments later, the thread became a perfect case study in what I call “process Stockholm Syndrome.”

The critique wasn’t straightforward. It was a mix of denial and semantics. “That is not real Agile.” “You are confusing the Manifesto with Scrum.” “You just implement…