Is that working?

Did they take that approach to Scrum / Agile / Kubernetes / Programming Language / Interviewing Skills ?

I wonder if any other profession just has the "give it a go" approach to new tools :)

Did either company have a push for AI adoption?

That will depend on the scope of the user stories.

I tend towards stories that are as small as possible and will break those into subtasks.

I never have large commits or PRs. A lot of my PRs are single or double digit numbers of lines.

There's that and kiro.dev

I have tried neither. I would only expect a developer to work from a spec for a user story or part of one.

Yes, I fear there's that real danger of making yourself ignorant.

I certainly agree building a project is the best way.

I'm still on the fence about using AI for it. I think it can work and I fear too many would lack the discipline to then read the code and try to understand it.

So it would end up just like watching a tutorial and copy and pasting the code.

Exactly, we now need to really focus on that loop - getting the specs, which has always been the hard bit that people try to avoid doing (because it's hard).

Finally, be prepared to replace members of the team who are not able or willing to learn and adapt to deliver quality software.

If your software engineering team is not delivering, a rewrite is not going the change that.

They can identify those areas that need most immediate attention and prioritise the changes, processes and procedures you need to turn around the development and keep your business moving!

That will only be fixed by developing the team's skillset. Find someone who can lead, mentor or coach your team and have them work with the team to incrementally improve your software.