KentBeck's submissions

1.		The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck 60 days ago \| past
2.		Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck 8 months ago \| past
3.		First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck 8 months ago \| past
4.		In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		5 points by KentBeck 9 months ago \| past
5.		Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		102 points by KentBeck 9 months ago \| past \| 76 comments
6.		Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck on March 21, 2025 \| past
7.		Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on Jan 27, 2025 \| past
8.		Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive? (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on Jan 3, 2025 \| past
9.		Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		3 points by KentBeck on Nov 11, 2024 \| past
10.		Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		3 points by KentBeck on Oct 25, 2024 \| past
11.		Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		57 points by KentBeck on Sept 16, 2024 \| past \| 40 comments
12.		Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on Aug 8, 2024 \| past
13.		TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		12 points by KentBeck on July 1, 2024 \| past \| 5 comments
14.		Software design gets worse before it gets better (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		233 points by KentBeck on June 19, 2024 \| past \| 140 comments
15.		Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		32 points by KentBeck on Dec 15, 2023 \| past \| 16 comments
16.		TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on Dec 8, 2023 \| past \| 1 comment
17.		Coding in the Debugger (2007) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		75 points by KentBeck on Sept 28, 2023 \| past \| 31 comments
18.		Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible” (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck on Sept 26, 2023 \| past
19.		Publish Everything (Pretty Much) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		69 points by KentBeck on Aug 10, 2023 \| past \| 26 comments
20.		Template for Impactful Ideas (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		75 points by KentBeck on Aug 7, 2023 \| past \| 12 comments
21.		Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on Aug 4, 2023 \| past \| 1 comment
22.		Emotions: A Code Book (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		139 points by KentBeck on July 24, 2023 \| past \| 57 comments
23.		Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		225 points by KentBeck on July 13, 2023 \| past \| 50 comments
24.		Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		2 points by KentBeck on July 12, 2023 \| past
25.		Paint Drip People (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		70 points by KentBeck on July 6, 2023 \| past \| 34 comments
26.		More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		3 points by KentBeck on April 22, 2023 \| past
27.		I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck on April 18, 2023 \| past
28.		How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		173 points by KentBeck on March 21, 2023 \| past \| 36 comments
29.		Software design also saves money by discouraging errors (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck on March 17, 2023 \| past
30.		Accountability is not blame (but easily becomes blame) (tidyfirst.substack.com)
		1 point by KentBeck on March 1, 2023 \| past
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