Alexey Krivitsky

Alexey Krivitsky

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I Hired a Scrum Master AI

Alexey Krivitsky1 min read
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TL;DR:An AI agent now coaches my team by reading session memories and surfacing recurring dysfunctions — approval gate violations, destructive ops without confirmation, plan-mode confusion. It catches patterns across sessions that humans forget. The role works because it observes relentlessly and never tires of pointing out drift.

I have just hired a Scrum Master!

In the interview, I asked: What other issues have you observed in my recent sessions?

Then she replied without hesitation: Here are the recurring issues I can see from the memories + today's session: Issues observed

And she continued with a great level of detail:

  1. Approval gate violation (repeated offense) — Memory says "NEVER jump to implementation without approval." Has its own memory file. Still happened 3+ times today. The memory/CLAUDE.md approach isn't working — needs a structural fix, not another reminder.

  2. Destructive data operations without confirmation — Cache version bump wiped 3.6MB of WA history. No warning, no backup, no confirmation asked. This pattern (making irreversible changes silently) is the most dangerous.

  3. Plan mode confusion — Plan mode's auto-"approved" message gets treated as user approval. This has happened before (it's explicitly in the memory file) and happened again today.

  4. Spec/plan location drift — Specs kept ending up in plan files instead of /specs. User had to say "MAKE A SPEC" and "follow OUR WORKFLOW." The memory file for this exists too.

  5. Testing against live resources — Previous incident with git e2e tests against working repo. Today: cache flush overwrote real data file. Pattern: not isolating test/dev operations from production data.

  6. Over-eagerness / not listening — When user says "stop", I often do one more thing before stopping. When user asks a question, I sometimes start implementing instead of just answering.

That's awesome, I said. You are hired!

Welcome to the team of:

  • product manager (me, for now)
  • expert UX researcher + user interviewer
  • elite BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) specialist
  • and a good coder (Opus 4.6)