Scrum Built the Training Set

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:00:04 +0100

Part 1 — Where You Stand

An uncomfortable piece of bookkeeping

Software engineering was the first knowledge profession to be substantially automated by language models. The usual explanation is that code is logical and therefore tractable for a machine.

That explanation is wrong, and believing it will cost you, because it points at the wrong property when you go looking for the next domain.

Here is what actually happened. For roughly two decades the industry adopted a family of methodologies — Agile, Scrum, Kanban, whatever your organization called its version — that mandated a particular discipline of record-keeping. Work had to be:

Knowledge Work on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming

Scrum Built the Training Set

An uncomfortable piece of bookkeeping