What Kent Beck thinks about code generation

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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. 1 Jul 2026

   Our readingThe industry is now accumulating code faster than it is accumulating trust, and trust only comes from having struggled to understand the domain yourself.

   Their wordswe'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 demonstrate that I really did understand it. And now I trust my program.

   ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 2nd of 28 in this recording