What Kent Beck thinks about semiconductors

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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 readingAn outside expert's understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded, because they do not have to live with the design after they leave.

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   Their wordsYour understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded because you're not in the middle of it. You don't have the same skin in the game. If you're not semiconductor test engineer, you don't have as much skin in the game as somebody who is because they're going to have to be using this interface for a long time after you're gone.

   ↗How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industryyoutube.com 6th of 28 in this recording