Kent Beck 🌻

@KentBeck

Pioneered JUnit/xUnit, patterns, XP, TDD. Ex-Apple, Meta, Gusto, Mechanical Orchard. Learning to be me. Blogging at newsletter.kentbeck.com.

San Francisco, CA

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Joined October 2008

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Kent Beck 🌻
@KentBeck
Jan 27, 2021
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I am continuing work on "Tidy First? An Exercise In Empirical Software Design" as a @substack . No paid tier yet, but that's where book chapters will be appearing. Sign up here: kentbeck.substack.com.
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Kent Beck 🌻
@KentBeck
Oct 20
Genies are being designed as a RoboGym for the mind. Button labelled "Lift." Weight goes up. Down. A counter tells you how many joules you burned. That's not a workout. I love that my genie does my toil — reformatting, boilerplate, drudgery. It teaches me nothing. The struggle
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Kent Beck 🌻
@KentBeck
Oct 9
It's been interesting watching mathematicians saying, "We prove theorems. The genie proves theorems better. Who are we now?" Programmers wen't through the same thing 2 years ago--we code, the genie codes better (for some definition of better), who are we now?
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Kent Beck 🌻
@KentBeck
Sep 10
So glad to be part of this. Building trust while we build code is the inner loop of our future.
Alex Xu
@alexxubyte
Sep 10
🚀 Announcing ByteByteGo Live: learn AI live from real builders. I’ve spent the past 8 years on education: thousands of hours writing books, deep dive newsletters, YouTube, etc. Two issues I keep seeing are: 1) it’s very different to learn from real builders. 2) most online
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Kent Beck 🌻
@KentBeck
Aug 31
I think Dwarkesh's language in this piece is a reflection of his understanding of the human experience.
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
Aug 29
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained
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