Not dead — but under serious pressure, and some of its foundational assumptions are eroding fast.

Agile was designed around the scarcity of working software. Writing code is slow, human attention is finite, and iteration is expensive. Its rituals — sprints, standups, story points, velocity tracking — exist to manage that scarcity. AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code dramatically compress the time from intent to working code. When a sprint’s worth of boilerplate takes an afternoon, the sprint cadence starts to feel like bureaucracy.