KentBeck

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

Posts

• The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong
  by KentBeckon 2/4/2026, 11:32 PMwith 0 comments
• Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity
  by KentBeckon 7/19/2025, 10:37 PMwith 0 comments
• First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback
  by KentBeckon 7/15/2025, 2:05 PMwith 0 comments
• In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies
  by KentBeckon 6/25/2025, 2:59 PMwith 0 comments
• Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline
  by KentBeckon 6/10/2025, 3:00 PMwith 76 comments
• Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument
  by KentBeckon 3/21/2025, 3:08 PMwith 0 comments
• Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often
  by KentBeckon 1/27/2025, 5:33 PMwith 0 comments
• Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive?
  by KentBeckon 1/3/2025, 4:31 PMwith 0 comments
• Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert
  by KentBeckon 11/11/2024, 4:22 PMwith 0 comments
• Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose
  by KentBeckon 10/25/2024, 4:08 PMwith 0 comments
• Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess
  by KentBeckon 9/16/2024, 3:05 PMwith 40 comments
• Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity
  by KentBeckon 8/8/2024, 6:13 PMwith 0 comments
• TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is)
  by KentBeckon 7/1/2024, 3:59 PMwith 5 comments
• Software design gets worse before it gets better
  by KentBeckon 6/19/2024, 2:36 PMwith 140 comments
• Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010)
  by KentBeckon 12/15/2023, 10:35 PMwith 16 comments
• TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback
  by KentBeckon 12/8/2023, 12:24 AMwith 1 comments
• Coding in the Debugger (2007)
  by KentBeckon 9/28/2023, 2:48 PMwith 31 comments
• Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible”
  by KentBeckon 9/26/2023, 4:17 PMwith 0 comments
• Publish Everything (Pretty Much)
  by KentBeckon 8/10/2023, 2:34 PMwith 26 comments
• Template for Impactful Ideas
  by KentBeckon 8/7/2023, 2:06 PMwith 12 comments
• Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency
  by KentBeckon 8/4/2023, 2:29 PMwith 1 comments
• Emotions: A Code Book
  by KentBeckon 7/24/2023, 3:03 PMwith 57 comments
• Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
  by KentBeckon 7/13/2023, 5:25 PMwith 50 comments
• Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history
  by KentBeckon 7/12/2023, 3:52 PMwith 0 comments
• Paint Drip People
  by KentBeckon 7/6/2023, 2:47 PMwith 34 comments