No area of the software development landscape is exposed as brutally by the AI revolution as is the current software management practices. Software management is in a poor state, and “agile,” while well intentioned, has allowed shoddy, lazy management practices to proliferate under the all-encompassing excuse of “we do agile now.” At its core, the Agile Manifesto and the principles and practices contained within are excellent and represent the least-worst way to manage and structure a software project. The implementation of agile practices over the last two decades has had two fatal flaws – organizations “adapt” their own agile implementation by ignoring and dropping-out the hard bits, and Agile Manifesto practices rely on the existence of an engaged, wise, and available product manager.