Weekly Pomodoro 25.10 - 🇬🇧 LLMs or XP? What’s Really Boosting Developer Productivity

🧠 It looks like LLMs are making devs 10x more productive. But something else might be... Over the past few months, I’ve been watching a pattern emerge. Devs rave about LLMs massively boosting their output. PMs boast about faster features. Founders post screenshots. VCs… well, they think they found the next gold mine. But when I zoomed in, something felt off. The devs getting the most value from AI agents aren’t doing anything “new.” They’re doing this instead: ✅ Writing tight, testable code ✅ Working in small, iterative steps ✅ Focusing on feedback and flow ✅ Getting clarity before coding ✅ Refactoring relentlessly Sound familiar? It should. That’s the original Extreme Programming (XP) playbook. And it’s looking more relevant now than ever—just wrapped in AI. 🚀 So what’s really driving productivity here? → Is it the machine, or the mindset? → The assistant, or the agile habits? I Follow & subscribe Connect on LinkedIn for the ongoing conversation and the reflections that don't make it into an episode: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniele-scillia/ One framework or practice per week, straight to your inbox — subscribe to the newsletter: https://learnagilepractices.substack.com/subscribe