The Dawn of Truly Automatic Software Production
In the beginning of March 2025, a perfect convergence of technological advancements fundamentally transformed software development. Three critical innovations reached maturity simultaneously: AI-enhanced development environments like Cursor, powerful reasoning models like Anthropic's Claude 3.7-thinking, and the reinvention of APIs for Large Language Models through the Machine Cognitive Protocol (MCP).
This technological trinity created, for the first time, a truly automatic software production capability accessible to almost everyone - not just professional developers. Domain experts, business analysts, and everyday users could now express their needs conversationally and have functional, robust software materialize before their eyes.
This profound shift inspired the creation of the Agaile Manifesto - a reflection on how AI was transforming not just code production, but the entire philosophy of software creation that had guided the industry for more than two decades. The last time such a fundamental transformation occurred in software development was with the original Agile Manifesto in 2001.
A Collaborative Reflection Process
The creation process embodied the new paradigm itself through collaboration with cutting-edge LLMs including Claude and ChatGPT to explore and articulate this transformation. Through iterative conversations, the AI systems analyzed their own impact and helped formulate principles that acknowledged the new reality.
Unlike the creation of the original Agile Manifesto, which required industry leaders to physically gather at a ski resort, the Agaile Manifesto emerged through human-AI collaboration that transcended traditional limitations of space, time, and specialized knowledge.
A Starting Point, Not an Endpoint
Crucially, the Agaile Manifesto was never intended to become a fixed ruleset for the next 25 years. True to its name and nature, it was designed as a starting point for continuous improvement - a living document that could evolve as rapidly as the technology it described.
While the original Agile Manifesto had revolutionized software development by prioritizing:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
The Agaile Manifesto acknowledged that in an AI-assisted era, these dichotomies were being reconciled in unprecedented ways. Tools were becoming partners in the creative process. Documentation could be generated alongside working software. And AI could help teams respond to change more effectively than ever before.
The Significance of March 2025
What made March 2025 particularly significant was not just the technological capabilities, but the democratization of software creation. For the first time, the ability to create sophisticated software was no longer limited by technical knowledge, but only by clarity of vision and problem understanding.
This shift represented a fundamental change in who could participate in digital creation - possibly the most significant expansion since the introduction of personal computers themselves. The Agaile Manifesto sought to document this inflection point and provide guiding principles for this new era.