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Does the Agile Manifesto still apply to agentic development — and if yes, why not?
I kept the title exactly as is. Not a typo. That's the answer before I write another word: yes, the Manifesto still applies. And that's the problem.
ReadIn a World That Does Not Plan for You
Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926–1973: a woman who wanted to write as though writing were simply natural to her — and for whom it never quite was. That is not a lament. It is an observation…
ReadThe Matrix You Think You Know — and Why It Still Helps (Differently Than You'd Expect)
Most practitioners who invoke "the Stacey Matrix" are not using Ralph D. Stacey's original. They are using a simplification developed by Zimmermann, which reduces Stacey's nuanced…
ReadFive Reasons Your Next Website Should Be Built by AI — And Why "Built by AI" Means Something Different Than You Think
Most conversations about AI-built websites start in the wrong place. They start with the technology — the models, the agents, the prompts. They end with a question nobody asked: "I…
ReadThe Wild 13
Michael Ende — author of *The Neverending Story* — writes in *Jim Knopf and the Wild 13* that the thirteen Wild 13 are the most dangerous characters in the world. They ride dragons…
ReadStanding on the Shoulders of Giants
The metaphor is borrowed. That is the first thing to say about it, because the borrowing is the point.
ReadWhere It Costs Nothing to Be Wrong
I never rode a beam of light. I only imagined riding one — and from that ride, conducted entirely in my head where it could break nothing, came relativity. The thought experiment i…
ReadSmall, Reversible Steps
There are days in the life of a practice when nothing dramatic occurs and yet, looking back, something quietly important has taken place. The eighteenth of June 2026 was one of tho…
ReadLive demos and the distance to production
There were live AI-agent demonstrations at the VDMA Praxistag KI in Frankfurt — proper ones, on stage, in front of eighty people. Vendors showing what their platforms can do: auton…
ReadTen minutes to a landing zone, then the paperwork won
The landing zone took ten minutes. Terraform, one `apply`, a clean GCP foundation — networking, projects, an IAM baseline, the lot. This is the part everyone warns you about, and i…
ReadShipping the apply flow in a day
Today we wired the new hiring page end to end. Pick a role, paste your experience, hit send — you get an instant "received", and a real person picks it up from there.
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