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.

While Scrum Masters are getting fired across the industry, 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! This is AI as a teacher, not just a doer — observing patterns humans miss and surfacing them relentlessly.

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) — a setup that maps directly to how agile teams work in the AI era