--- title: Saying Goodbye to Agile | daily.dev description: A critique arguing that Agile was always vaguely defined, marketed as solving problems that serious engineers had already addressed decades earlier. The Agile... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/saying-goodbye-to-agile-4y3sbiw4v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Saying Goodbye to Agile | daily.dev og:description: A critique arguing that Agile was always vaguely defined, marketed as solving problems that serious engineers had already addressed decades earlier. The Agile... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/saying-goodbye-to-agile-4y3sbiw4v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/4y3sBIw4V.png og:image:alt: Saying Goodbye to Agile og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # Saying Goodbye to Agile **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A critique arguing that Agile was always vaguely defined, marketed as solving problems that serious engineers had already addressed decades earlier. The Agile Manifesto's platitudes are contrasted with Winston Royce's 1970 paper, which already recommended iterative development, prototyping, and customer involvement. The post argues that the rise of LLMs and spec-driven development is now reversing Agile's dismissal of documentation, and that Agile deserves to be retired as a concept. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Agile Isn’t Dead. 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