Essay · 3 November 2026 · 7 min read

Your AI Tools Are Faster Than Your Delivery Process

AI tools collapsed the cost of writing code, but most delivery processes still assume code is the bottleneck. The essay argues that story points, user stories and the sprint boundary are now mispriced, and it names what replaces them: appetite, executable specs and continuous flow. It is a short argument for engineering leaders who need to fix the queue before adding more tooling.

01 / THE BOOK The essay is the argument. The book is the method.

Post-Agile is a 29-page playbook for engineering leaders making the transition to AI-native delivery.

Post-Agile book cover: engineering management in the age of AI

It covers the three replacements, the roles that own them and a three-phase migration you can run in order. The first five pages are free.