The interactivity seems to be a substitute for coherent global organization (and a rationalization by the human author for not reviewing the LLM's strange stylistic / wording choices). It's incredibly distracting, and fatally weakens the argument! The entire time I was thinking "ok, then we just do the same old scrum on specs instead of code, seems like the human management advantages are still as relevant as ever." Perhaps if this were written as an essay the author could have collected their own thoughts a little better and addressed this point. They only did, offhandedly at the end.

UGH I tried to copy-paste that part ("Start writing specs in a way..."), but I couldn't because of this obnoxious fucking interactivity! Why write an essay if people can't share the parts they find interesting???? Again this stuff is designed to impede critical long-distance thought by throwing up a bunch of short-range distractions. It even works on the humans and LLMs writing it. This essay really is incoherent.

Also as someone who used to work manual QA for fairly sensitive finance/pharmaceutical software, this part is darkly funny (I actually could put it on my clipboard, god I hate JS):

  Then · circa 2001
  6 weeks
  Submit code. Wait for QA. Get a bug list. Negotiate. Fix. Wait again.

  Now · 2026
  6 seconds
  Type, save, hot-reload, AI suggests a fix, tests run in parallel. The build itself talks back to you.

"AI suggests a fix" but who finds the bug? AI, I suppose. Good luck with that. Meta is desperately training AI to use a mouse correctly by snooping on its tens of thousands of its own workers. A very important part of my job was clicking on stuff. Maybe in a few years of mass surveillance AI will figure it out. Until then, it seems like Mantyx needed to hire a human who knows how to use a computer and review this website. It's incredibly hard to use because it's obviously vibe-coded. HIRE HUMANS TO AT LEAST LOOK AT YOUR SOFTWARE. Even if it's just a website.

Speaking of, it's so depressing to see this written by an actual company trying to sell stuff:

  Treat agents as teammates
  Specify, dispatch, and verify. Stop treating AI as autocomplete; start treating it as a junior engineer who works at machine speed.

Junior engineers: do not work at Mantyx! They have announced their intentions to mistreat you. It's LLM-boosted corporate hideousness.

The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left