Why have coding agents not brought easter-egg utopia?

With the rise of coding agents and being able to hand off hours of work without supervision, why haven’t we seen a revival of fun easter eggs? Previously, with the organizational move towards development teams/squads/pods (over small 2-3 person groups) and the rise of sprints/estimation/deliverables, it’s not hard to see how easter eggs lost planning poker to one more CRUD feature because “we’re 2 points over this sprint’s target”.

Can coding agents bring back the fun in software engineering (if we’re all just middle-managers of agents now)?

With the rise of coding agents we should be able to imagine, prompt, and QA an easter egg in a few minutes. In trying to break the monotony of prompting and checking in on agents all day, at Rally we’ve tried to give ourselves space to build easter eggs and bring moments of joy as we think of them, play with them, and have others discover them. We invite everyone to bring easter eggs back!

Let’s take inspiration from the Excel 97 Flight Simulator, Chrome’s Dinosaur Game, and The Book of Mozilla and bring some joy to developers and users. Email us your favorite easter eggs (or ideas for new ones).