What's amusing to me is that PRIDE, the oldest generally available software methodology and perhaps the least appreciated, is basically just "spec driven development with human programmers". Most of the time, and personnel, involved in development is on elucidating the requirements and developing the spec; programmers only get involved at the end and their contribution is about 15%. For a few decades this was considered the "correct" way to develop software. But then PCs happened, mom-and-pop software vendors stuffing floppy disks into Ziploc happened, and the myth of the lone "genius programmer" took hold of the industry, and programmers experienced such prestige inflation that they thought they were able to call the shots, and by and large management acquiesced. And that's how we got Agile.

With the rise of AI, maybe programmers will be put back in their rightful place, as contributors of the final small piece of the development process: a translation from business terms to the language of the computer. Programming as a profession should, by all rights, be obsolete. We should be able to express the solution directly in business terms and have the translation take place automatically. Maybe that day will be here soon.