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Software Design: Tidy First?
Trust Factory
“We’re accumulating code faster than we are accumulating trust.” Sometimes a phrase just hits.
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Genie Lessons from Genie Sessions: Prose as a Programming Language
Kent sits down with one of the founders of OpenProse to talk through their method of prose as a programming language.
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Scope Is The Steering Wheel
This stuck in my craw at the time Patrick published it but I didn’t have the energy to respond.
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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey
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Canon TDD
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Augmented Coding: Beyond the Vibes
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Programming Deflation
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Genie Sessions: Run, Right, and Fast for the Adaptive Radix Tree
A recording from Kent Beck's live video
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Genie Tarpit
Genies give you code that’s a degraded facsimile of the mediocre code it trained on.
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Genie Lessons: Nobody Wants Agents
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Starving Genies
What 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract says about throttling
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