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KentBeck

2,487 karma · joined April 6, 2009

Kent Beck is a programmer, author, artist, father, and singing guitarist.
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Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

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The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong

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Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity

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First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback

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In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies

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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline

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Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument

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Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often

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Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive?

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Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert

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Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose

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Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess

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Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity

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TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is)

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Software design gets worse before it gets better

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Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010)

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TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback

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Coding in the Debugger (2007)

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Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible”

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Publish Everything (Pretty Much)

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Template for Impactful Ideas

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Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency

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Emotions: A Code Book

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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots

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Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history

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Paint Drip People

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More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever)

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I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design

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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years

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Software design also saves money by discouraging errors

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