Definitely, Maybe Agile
Definitely, Maybe Agile
Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock
AI Coding Speed Isn't Agile's Real Bottleneck
22 minutes Posted Jul 23, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
Welcome And The AI Hype
Coding Speed vs Value Discovery
Why Sprints Include Thinking Time
Feedback Loops A-B Tests And Limits
Scenario Planning Without Overload
Sprint Length Equals Decision Latency
AI Agents Delegated Decisions
Takeaways And Listener Next Steps
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AI can write code faster than ever, but Peter Maddison and Dave Sharrock argue that coding was never the actual bottleneck in software delivery. In this conversation about AI software delivery, Peter and Dave dig into why faster coding hasn't solved the two problems that always mattered: knowing whether what you built is actually valuable, and knowing what to build in the first place. They connect this back to sprint length, arguing it was never set by how hard the coding is, but by how fast...