SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT
IS DEAD.
LONG LIVE CREATION.
Read the manifesto ↓The Agile Manifesto came out of a three-day meeting in Utah in February 2001. Seventeen practitioners attended, each the champion of a different lightweight method for software development. The point was to find common ground across rival methods rather than crown one.
In this era, the people who needed software could not build it. We split the work across roles and frameworks so a specialist team could produce it for everyone else.
But the constraint that justified this entire system is collapsing.
Software development as we once knew it is changing.
AI has moved the bottleneck from writing code to judging it.
Yet we’re still organizing teams, workflows, and processes as though writing code were the scarce resource.
The big players in AI have written frameworks and playbooks for how to utilize AI to build faster and higher quality, and the market is flooded with AI vendors. These resources are a strong start, but what is missing is the practical layer:
- What is realistic for my organization, given its size and structure?
- How do I get there, and what has to change along the way?
- Which tools and playbooks do I use, and when?
The Go LUCY movement is an AI-era, community-driven, vendor-agnostic process for software development.
LEARN
IN THE OPEN.
We learn best in community.
Just as open-source development is best practice, this process must be created in an open, vendor-agnostic community. We must experiment, gather feedback, and publish our findings.
UNITED
IN CREATION.
Organizational structures of software teams need to change drastically.
Every role is changing, but the expertise and perspectives we hold are still important. What has to change is how we collaborate. The developers are no longer just engineers. We envision leadership, product, UI/UX, sales, and even customers, too, coming together to build.
CONFIDENCE
BY DESIGN.
We can move fast with confidence by capitalizing on our strengths.
Agents excel at execution within clear boundaries: writing, testing and checking code at a speed and scale no team can match. Humans are uniquely positioned for what agents cannot offer: creativity, taste, context, strategy, judgment and responsibility.
We need to reimagine our workflows so each of these strengths has a place.
YES,
AND.
There is no single right stack, tool, or playbook that works for every problem set or company, but rather, a human process and best practices that ebb and flow with given constraints.
GO LUCY IS AN OPEN EXPERIMENT IN WHAT REPLACES TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
We are actively testing new ways of creating software in real organizations. Sharing what works. Exposing what fails. And developing the practices, tools, and knowledge that make a new operating model possible.
THIS IS AN
INVITATION.
To founders who suspect a new development model will give them an edge.
To C-suites who suspect the old development model will hold them back.
To engineers who can see their profession transforming.
To product managers who want to spend less time managing tickets and more time understanding people.
To designers who want their ideas to become real without passing through six handoffs.
To customers who are tired of being told their needs are on the roadmap.
And to anyone who has ever thought, “Why can’t I just make this work the way I want?”
Learn with us. Bring what you have tried. Build the future of software development.