What Kent Beck thinks about SaaS

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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 Example and Tidy First?

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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kent Beck has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 1 Jul 2026

   Our readingCompanies protected by high switching costs will see those costs fall to zero, and their profits with them.

   Their wordsOkay. So now we have people who've been able to rely on switching costs to protect their profits and the switching costs just drop to zero. Their profits are going to drop to zero and and some people aren't going to survive that change.

   ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 23rd of 28 in this recording