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Asking what the smallest experiment is that would settle a claim to your own satisfaction has become a thousand times more valuable in the last year.

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  1. Kent Beck

    Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development

    Yeah, what what's the smallest experiment I can run to verify to my own satisfaction and everybody's level of satisfaction is going to be different whether or not this claim is true. That's That's the skill that is suddenly in the last year become a thousand times more valuable is that skill of saying, "What's the least I can do to validate for my to my own satisfaction whether this claim is true?

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