Coffee With Developers • Jun 1, 2026

25 Years After Agile, And Yet We're Building Waterfall Agents - Martin Hynie

Martin Hynie

Martin Hynie warns that modern AI agents have regressed into rigid waterfall workflows. They blindly pursue flawed logic. Discover how ritualized dissent forces these autonomous systems to self-correct.

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