What Kent C. Dodds thinks about design
Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kent C. Dodds has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsAI agents make redesigns cheap. The reason I could go through three rounds of "build, ship, regret, redesign" in a matter of days is that the agent did most of the implementation work.
↗Implementing Hybrid Semantic + Lexical Searchkentcdodds.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThat is the part that usually makes architectural iteration slow: you have to build the thing before you can have an informed opinion about whether it is the right thing.
↗Simplifying Containers with Cloudflare Sandboxeskentcdodds.com 1st of 3 in this piece