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The satisfaction of getting one function exactly right no longer makes a difference, and an engineer has to let go of it and enjoy understanding the domain instead.

Drawn from what Kent Beck said

SubjectAI and human skill

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AI and human skill Practised abilities decaying because a machine now does them: writing, thinking, reading anything long.

What Kent Beck actually said

Kent Beck 7 Apr 2026 Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development

So I think for me I take a kind of uh OCD enjoyment in the in the craft. And I need to let go of that. Because that that satisfaction of getting this one function just right just doesn't make a difference anymore.

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↗Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and againyoutube.com

7 Apr 2026 · video · 32m · spoken · machine transcript

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