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The wish to get rid of all the programmers keeps coming back, and programmers ought to ask themselves why, because some of the reason really is about us.

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  1. Kent Beck

    Creator of extreme programming and test-driven development

    But now now we have this repeating this repeating, "Hey, we get to get rid of all the programmers." Which it behooves us as programmers to think about why they keep wanting to get rid of us. Some of that's about us and some of it's not, but some of it is. So we should think about that. But also that ants amps up the fear factor that everybody is experiencing.

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

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