--- title: Agile is Out, Architecture is Back! | daily.dev description: As AI-generated code transforms development workflows, the industry faces a new challenge: maintaining cohesive long-term structure. While Agile methodologies... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back--vvxi7p8ta twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Agile is Out, Architecture is Back! | daily.dev og:description: As AI-generated code transforms development workflows, the industry faces a new challenge: maintaining cohesive long-term structure. While Agile methodologies... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back--vvxi7p8ta og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vVXI7p8Ta.png og:image:alt: Agile is Out, Architecture is Back! 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. # Agile is Out, Architecture is Back! **[Dev World](https://daily.dev/sources/dev_world)** · [@theacademe](https://daily.dev/theacademe) · 1 min read · 73 upvotes · 9 comments ## Summary As AI-generated code transforms development workflows, the industry faces a new challenge: maintaining cohesive long-term structure. While Agile methodologies improved speed and flexibility, the focus is shifting back to architectural frameworks and processes that guide both developers and AI assistants to prevent technical debt and ensure maintainability over time. ## Content If AI-generated code is changing the role of developers, if Agile improved speed and flexibility, then [the next challenge](https://medium.com/@craig_32726/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back-7586910ab810) is cohesive long-term structure and understanding - processes and frameworks that guide developers and their AI assistants, to avoid technical debt and ensure long-term maintainability. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@pandaman0090** · 9 upvotes > The person with knowledge in system design and architecture will always have a place in a company **@rucaua** · 4 upvotes > AI just exaggerated the problem with Agile. Agile has always been about shitcode. It's only suitable for businesses created to sell. Fast money for investors. You can not create good product with Agile. Never. > > Agile === huge cost of maintain in future. > > Look at Telegram—9 developers and no Agile. Wanna do the same - ask me how. **@microbial** · 4 upvotes > The manifesto for agile software development doesn't say "No architecture". Companies like to buy into Agile... which most of the time means they buy into someone else's product that they want to sell and forget to have first principles. The real problem, as the article almost passes over, was "shipping fast". Companies bought into the idea of Agile because they thought they'd get a speed up. And they do see a time-to-first-value (a la time to first packet in HTTP). That doesn't mean software, on the whole, is built faster, ostensibly it might even be slower. But that first functional... **@foxsir** · 3 upvotes > yes！Agree with this view. **@asadurrahman** · 2 upvotes > Agreed! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity](https://daily.dev/posts/architecture-in-the-age-of-ai-change-and-opportunity-xudvcet3p) · InfoQ · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#agile](https://daily.dev/tags/agile), [#technical-debt](https://daily.dev/tags/technical-debt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back--vvxi7p8ta) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/agile-is-out-architecture-is-back--vvxi7p8ta","headline":"Agile is Out, Architecture is Back!","text":"As AI-generated code transforms development workflows, the industry faces a new challenge: maintaining cohesive long-term structure. 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Now an IT Manager, living slow, opposing the Oxford comma.","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":7920}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--zUQDxXpx--/f_auto/v1759879519/posts/xnOIm6dha?_a=BAMAK+ZW0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":73},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":9}],"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"The person with knowledge in system design and architecture will always have a place in a company","datePublished":"2025-10-30T05:20:00.171Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vVXI7p8Ta#c-rqSD889eN","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Pandaman","url":"https://daily.dev/pandaman0090"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":9}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"AI just exaggerated the problem with Agile. Agile has always been about shitcode. It’s only suitable for businesses created to sell. Fast money for investors. You can not create good product with Agile. Never.\nAgile === huge cost of maintain in future.\nLook at Telegram—9 developers and no Agile. Wanna do the same - ask me how.","datePublished":"2025-11-04T16:36:28.711Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vVXI7p8Ta#c-AiEjSJpmt","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Maksym Tymofeiev","url":"https://daily.dev/rucaua","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--caTJyFHC--/f_auto/v1736549445/avatars/avatar_sIPMygD4Ld90iZsdsEqh7"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"The manifesto for agile software development doesn’t say “No architecture”. Companies like to buy into Agile… which most of the time means they buy into someone else’s product that they want to sell and forget to have first principles. The real problem, as the article almost passes over, was “shipping fast”. Companies bought into the idea of Agile because they thought they’d get a speed up. And they do see a time-to-first-value (a la time to first packet in HTTP). That doesn’t mean software, on the whole, is built faster, ostensibly it might even be slower. But that first functional piece come out front-loaded and value is refined by fit over plan. In fact… the manifesto actually states in it’s 12 principles “Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.” So the article, while speaking about a reality we face, isn’t really technically correct.","datePublished":"2025-11-19T22:40:25.339Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vVXI7p8Ta#c-06ktT2nhK","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Russell Parks","url":"https://daily.dev/microbial","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--9vsHMbWW--/f_auto/v1769537799/avatars/avatar_7O12C7lk0VSkWJBnZAcRo?_a=BAMAMiiu0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"yes！Agree with this view.","datePublished":"2025-10-14T07:53:23.461Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vVXI7p8Ta#c-rImcM5c1H","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"霍建营","url":"https://daily.dev/foxsir","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocL79ystX0UPE9E4-YXKLOCTPVFbe7MWp2QiKJsf5iH4Xk6Q6Set=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Agreed!","datePublished":"2025-11-02T20:21:20.554Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/vVXI7p8Ta#c-txcXbgyvX","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Asadur Rahman","url":"https://daily.dev/asadurrahman","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLj1xUgbWLp-LiqQZjII4855ceAY4dHKEbWwjJAueIsxyrEFz4=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}}],"isPartOf":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://daily.dev/squads/dev_world","name":"Dev World"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dev World","item":"https://daily.dev/squads/dev_world"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Agile is Out, Architecture is Back!"}]} ```