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Kent beck is an incredibly famous software engineer.

Invented XP, and the wrote the most well known book on TDD.

For anyone else unfamiliar with "XP" in this context:

"Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming

His own writings aren't that bad but he's the Dr. Oz to the agile-charlatans. (e.g. Dr. Oz had to explain to Congress that he had no idea whatsoever why his face was on so many ads for scam weight loss products.)

XP at the time was pretty good. A lot of people started doing CI of the back of XP.

I'd say he's pretty sad about how agile turned out. Its pretty different to what XP advocated for in a lot of organisations.

The thing is the agile-charlatans copied his style for talking about how programming teams should be organized.

That's the charlatans' fault, not Kent's.

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