The original promise
Agile was created by engineers to protect craftsmanship, autonomy and working software. So how did it become associated with ceremonies, delivery pressure, technical debt and the gradual erosion of engineering culture?
All events
Did Agile Break Engineering and Can AI Build It Back? (Enterprise / Q&A)
When
Thursday, 23 July 2026, 17:00–18:00 CEST
Duration
1 hr
Language
English
Topic
Agile & Agentic AI
Price
Free
The new inflection point
Now agentic AI is introducing another major shift. Software can be generated faster than ever, reviving the decades-old dream of the “software factory.” But does this create better systems or simply produce technical debt at industrial speed?
Live discussion + audience Q&A
Two perspectives on what engineering becomes next
Join Alexandre Kotcherguine and Kevin Riedl for a live discussion based on their three-part guest-article series.
Alexandre Kotcherguine
Vision Officer and Investor
Polity
The three-part argument
Read the series behind the conversation
Discussion map
What we’ll explore
- 01
Where enterprise Agile departed from its original engineering principles
- 02
Why AI moves engineering judgement from writing code to defining specifications, constraints and quality gates
- 03
Whether industrial-scale software production can coexist with craftsmanship and adaptability
- 04
Why governance, not merely the AI model, may determine whether agentic development succeeds
- 05
How AI could restore whole-system engineering and make complex architectures easier to understand and control
- 06
Where verifiable and decentralised systems may fit into the future of enterprise software