Lots of people are talking about how gen AI has brought XP to the fore, but I haven’t heard much discussion of why.

In my experience, many people simply didn’t try XP. They were locked into a tightly controlled environment, discouraged from experimenting, and constrained by process interdependencies. Maybe they didn’t have the influencing skills to get the rest of the team on board – it’s not easy to drive bottom-up change.

Did AI dev speed made experimentation simple and fast enough that anybody could try different workflows and observe the results?