Kent Beck's tale is a thrilling ride through the riveting world of... cognitive decline? 🤔 Apparently, his brain needed an exoskeleton because aging is hard, folks. But don't worry, the magic of augmented coding is here to save him from the existential crisis of using a computer. 💻✨
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/me-an-algernon #KentBeck #CognitiveDecline #AugmentedCoding #AgingTech #ExistentialCrisis #HackerNews #ngated

I confess to have never written a single line of code using AI (and only used it for proofreading a couple of times).

Having read what Kent Beck has written regarding his experience with “augmented coding” using the “genie” there’s an interesting case to be made.

When your brain becomes less willing to put up with the boilerplatey part of coding but you still very much love doing it maybe AI will help bring the joy back.

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/me-an-algernon

#kentbeck #FlowersForAlgernon #ai

Hi All,

As you may know, I’m writing a 7-part essay on Doug Engelbart’s vision of human augmentation, using it as a lens with which to view AI-Assisted coding & various considerations around that.

This includes a dense disquisition on @GeePawHill’s friend Kent Beck’s current augmented process. Can he show us how Engelbart’s Law holds in 2025? I welcome everyone’s constructive comment & reflections.

#humanaugmentation #kentbeck #ai #vibecoding

Last year I kept seeing 'Tidy First?' on https://www.oreilly.com/ and kept meaning to read it. This morning I found a talk version and I’m watching it: https://youtu.be/Saaz6D1azlU

#tidyfirst #kentbeck
(Book link: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781098151232/ )

“What’s a leader to do, if you can’t “hold them accountable”? As I said above, be a person. Tell stories. Listen, empathetically but critically. Set an example. Read the room. Create skin-in-the-game situations, not by giving cash (another distorting move) but by making sure, for example, that folks play the game they’re writing or their kids do or their parents do.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/tidyfirst/p/humans-data

#kentbeck #softwaredevelopment

@jasongorman

"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work" needs us to define what we mean by "work".

"Working" here being synonymous with "effective"

#XP #ExtremeProgramming #Agile #KentBeck

“Empty calorie”/“Emperor’s new clothes”aesthetics (form) is decimating knowledge work (function) - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/112551523674223681 and Related:
> “Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.” #KentBeck -
https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/112575106493818412

“Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.” #KentBeck https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/report-humane-ai-pin-did-7-million-in-sales-wants-to-sell-for-1-billion/

"The value of 90% of my skills just dropped to $0. The leverage for the remaining 10% went up 1000x."
- Kent Beck on ChatGPT

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/90-of-my-skills-are-now-worth-0?sd=pf

#ChatGPT #KentBeck

some good work tips from a known veteran

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/mastering-programming

#kentbeck

Which #agile gurus and big brain people are already on mastodon? I was sad to see that #kentbeck hasn't switched yet. I'd love to follow some of my heroes from #domaindrivendesign #extremeprogramming #leanstartup and others on here

🎂 Auguri a #KentBeck, nato il #31marzo 1961, creatore della metodologia di sviluppo del software Extreme Programming (insieme a Ward Cunningham e Ron Jeffries) e del test driven development.
È stato uno dei firmatari originali del Manifesto Agile e pioniere dei design pattern e dell'applicazione commerciale di Smalltalk. Assieme a Ward Cunningham ha proposto le carte di Class Responsibility Collaboration, mentre con Erich Gamma ha creato il principale framework di unit testing per Java, JUnit.

Wow... this instructor thinks #Refactoring was written by #KentBeck... might explain why his description of refactoring was off -- I'm sceptical he actually read it.