I'm not a big fan of agile either but "over 40" == "the smell of death"? Seriously? Not a convincing, or classy, opening line. And this was posted by the CEO of Assembla.
At first I thought it was an attempt at humor, but it wasn't! It's funny how if you take the prejudice away it actually makes the opposite point he's trying to make, i.e.
"Do you notice how as people get more and more experience in the industry they start to gravitate more towards agile processes?"
The main problem is the illogic of it: "if young people don't flock to something then it must be wrong." Wrong.
I don't agree with agile either but I actually have reasons. But to be fair, the article did say "Seven Things I Hate ...", it didn't say "Seven Good Reasons to Avoid Agile". The thing the article leaves out though is a reason for me to care about the fact that he hates something.
"Do you notice how as people get more and more experience in the industry they start to gravitate more towards agile processes?"