David VujicIs there a "Modern Waterfall" rising in the new landscape of software development, or am I misunderstanding?
I wrote a post about it:
https://davidvujic.blogspot.com/2026/03/agile-agentic-engineering.html
ben@davidvujic much of “AI” engineering seems to involve throwing away decades of knowledge and starting from scratch, so it’s no surprise if LLM users have forgotten/ignored all we’ve learned about waterfall versus agile too.
(Comparable to the security problems too, which seem to me to be replicating problems from the 80s and 90s that we’ve known how to avoid for decades.)
@benjamineskola I agree, and wasn't it someone at one of the AI tooling providers that said something about we are all now junior engineers again (meaning what we know is not worth much anymore)?
I see it as our experience and knowledge is a huge advantage. The trick is to keep an open mind and keep on learning.
@davidvujic My feeling is that what we (as an industry) know it worth a lot, but the AI advocates don’t value that knowledge.
In fact it’s not even new to AI advocacy but Silicon Valley startup culture more broadly has the same problem. The old knowledge is irrelevant, they say — and then encounter all the same problems over again.
In particular I’d assume any claim made by the AI companies themselves is marketing. These tools are *so* powerful and *so* different that everything has changed — or so they want you to believe.