Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained remains relevant in 2025, according to engineering manager Anton Zaides, who reread the 1999 book to address modern software team challenges. Zaides highlight…
Generative AI has made writing code nearly free, shifting software engineering's value from code production to clarity, specifications, architecture, and code review. Developer Kodel introduces Spec D…
A developer built a methodology for turning personal tools into open source contributions and subjected it to a novel AI-assisted review process that role-plays as 24 famous engineers, including Linus…
Software engineer and author Kent Beck, now 65 and recently diagnosed with Parkinson's, argues that the time value of money makes long-term financial promises worthless to older individuals, as a bill…
Kent Beck is developing Smalltalk Genie, a server that loads into a Pharo image and connects to MCP clients like Claude, enabling AI-assisted Smalltalk development. The project aims to close the loop …
AI agents now generate code at ten times human speed, but the cost of verifying and maintaining that code has skyrocketed, leading to compounding technical debt. The industry is shifting from 'vibe co…
The cost of drafting code has collapsed with AI agents, but the cost of verifying that code remains high, creating a permanent asymmetry that threatens software reliability. Kent Beck's "Tidy First?" …
Software engineer Jason Swett has developed a specialized skill to improve AI agents' ability to write effective tests using Test-Driven Development (TDD), addressing the common problem of agents prod…
Developers are generating twice as much code as six months ago, raising concerns about quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix exists, but few are acting on it, as discussed in a keynote t…
Gergely Orosz reports that AI is amplifying team culture for better or worse, while Cloudflare demonstrates frontier models chaining exploits and outperforming single-agent verification in security re…