Is it still all about the people?

A reflection on how the people-first philosophy of Extreme Programming and early agile movements seems absent from today's AI-assisted development discourse. While XP emphasized psychological safety, collaboration, and team empowerment, the current AI wave appears focused on tools like Claude, Cursor, and Copilot — often at the expense of the humans involved. The author notes that teams struggling before AI adoption tend to struggle even more with it, suggesting the root cause remains a people problem, not a tooling problem.