Kent Beck
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Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development, an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and the author of Test-Driven Development: By…
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38 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. (opens korrents.com)
“My response is that that's a statement by someone who doesn't understand software engineering. Coding is part of what you're doing, but it's only a small part of what you're doing.”
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The industry is now accumulating code faster than it is accumulating trust, and trust only comes from having struggled to understand the domain yourself. (opens korrents.com)
“we're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust and that sense of trust comes from me struggling to understand some domain concept I get it. I represent it in the code. I have I write tests that…”
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Engineers were promised that understanding the computer would be enough, and the human skills they were told they could skip turn out to be the hard part. (opens korrents.com)
“So I was promised just understand the computer and then just kidding understand people from a position where I was already 10 years behind.”
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Saying that coding will be automated away first betrays a misunderstanding of software engineering, because coding is only a small part of the work. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Captain Class (opens rcmnd.app)
“First published May 2017. The book continues to shape my thinking around leadership. The Captain Class is a meditation on leadership by the founding editor of WSJ's sports page, Sam Walker.”
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The Captain Class (opens rcmnd.app)