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user: KentBeck created: 2009-04-06 karma: 2468 Kent Beck is a programmer, author, artist, father, and singing guitarist. submissions: The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong 2 points | 0 comments Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity 2 points | 0 comments First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback 1 points | 0 comments In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies 5 points | 0 comments Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline 102 points | 76 comments Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument 1 points | 0 comments Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often 2 points | 0 comments Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive? 2 points | 0 comments Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert 3 points | 0 comments Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose 3 points | 0 comments 0 points | 0 comments Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess 57 points | 40 comments Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity 2 points | 0 comments TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is) 12 points | 5 comments Software design gets worse before it gets better 233 points | 140 comments Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010) 32 points | 16 comments TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback 2 points | 1 comments Coding in the Debugger (2007) 75 points | 31 comments Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible” 1 points | 0 comments Publish Everything (Pretty Much) 69 points | 26 comments 0 points | 0 comments Template for Impactful Ideas 75 points | 12 comments Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency 2 points | 1 comments Emotions: A Code Book 139 points | 57 comments Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots 225 points | 50 comments Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history 2 points | 0 comments Paint Drip People 70 points | 34 comments