--- title: "Is it still all about the people?" url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-it-still-all-about-the-people--sxxto9ytt source_url: https://lisacrispin.com/2026/04/29/is-it-still-all-about-the-people type: article source: "Agile Testing" published: 2026-04-29T18:39:34.878Z updated: 2026-04-29T18:44:59.535Z tags: ["agile", "company-culture", "ai-assisted-development"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is it still all about the people? **[Agile Testing](https://daily.dev/sources/lisacrispin)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A reflection on how the people-first philosophy of Extreme Programming and early agile movements seems absent from today's AI-assisted development discourse. While XP emphasized psychological safety, collaboration, and team empowerment, the current AI wave appears focused on tools like Claude, Cursor, and Copilot — often at the expense of the humans involved. The author notes that teams struggling before AI adoption tend to struggle even more with it, suggesting the root cause remains a people problem, not a tooling problem. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [There’s Two Sides To Every AI Tool Adoption Story](https://daily.dev/posts/there-s-two-sides-to-every-ai-tool-adoption-story-3di7vnha4) · Prezi · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Tales from the pit: AI and the software engineer](https://daily.dev/posts/tales-from-the-pit-ai-and-the-software-engineer-jbhd4bno1) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/is-it-still-all-about-the-people--sxxto9ytt)