The Irony of AI Development: How Context Engineering Is Taking Us Back to Waterfall

The Irony of AI Development: How Context Engineering Is Taking Us Back to Waterfall And Why That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing For three decades, the software industry has been on a journey away from waterfall development toward agile methodologies. Now, in an unexpected twist, the rise of AI-powered development tools and "context engineering" is quietly pushing us back toward sequential, specification-heavy workflows. But this time, we're walking into a trap we've seen before—the waterbed probl