KentBeck

2,486 karmajoined April 6, 2009On HN

Kent Beck is a programmer, author, artist, father, and singing guitarist.

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Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training newsletter.kentbeck.com
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The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong tidyfirst.substack.com
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Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity tidyfirst.substack.com
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First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback tidyfirst.substack.com
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In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies tidyfirst.substack.com
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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline tidyfirst.substack.com
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Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument tidyfirst.substack.com
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Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often tidyfirst.substack.com
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Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive?tidyfirst.substack.com
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Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert tidyfirst.substack.com
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Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose tidyfirst.substack.com
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Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess tidyfirst.substack.com
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Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity tidyfirst.substack.com
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TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is)tidyfirst.substack.com
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Software design gets worse before it gets better tidyfirst.substack.com
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Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010)tidyfirst.substack.com
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TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback tidyfirst.substack.com
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Coding in the Debugger (2007)tidyfirst.substack.com
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Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible”tidyfirst.substack.com
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Publish Everything (Pretty Much)tidyfirst.substack.com
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Template for Impactful Ideas tidyfirst.substack.com
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Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency tidyfirst.substack.com
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Emotions: A Code Book tidyfirst.substack.com
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots tidyfirst.substack.com
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Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history tidyfirst.substack.com
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Paint Drip People tidyfirst.substack.com
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More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever)tidyfirst.substack.com
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I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design tidyfirst.substack.com
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years tidyfirst.substack.com
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Software design also saves money by discouraging errors tidyfirst.substack.com
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