I sometimes wonder if agile/scrum’s inefficiency stings so much because of its disconnect with the end product. Or, you end up being involved in a bunch of bureaucratic work as a programmer, even though you can see the codebase’s flaws in plain sight. You can view a peer’s backlog, but also see their concrete work on GitHub. The map truly isn’t the territory.

I haven’t really been wowed at all by LLMs over the past cycle, personally. That said, I wonder if it could truly shine as a tool that could conversationally explain a codebase to management to empower staff and cut down the red tape.