A developer working in embedded systems argues that AI coding agents need observability tools—debug probes, GDB sessions, serial logs—rather than just better prompting, drawing an analogy to reinforce…
A developer published a Claude skill called "augmented-development-coach" that turns the assistant into a pair-programming and software design coach based on Kent Beck's "Augmented Development" philos…
A developer working with IBM Bob as a coding agent found that tests written by agents often pass regardless of whether the code works, and proposes a set of instruction-file rules plus a post-green ch…
A developer argues that evaluation is the oldest discipline in software applied to a component that broke its central assumption, citing OpenAI's April 2025 GPT-4o sycophancy update and its four-day r…
A developer argues that spec-driven development is not inherently waterfall, distinguishing the practice from waterfall by focusing on batch size and phase gates rather than whether software intent is…
ByteByteGo launched ByteByteGo Live, a live-cohort course platform whose lineup includes Build with Claude Code taught by John Kim, a senior staff engineer at Meta, starting in a few days. ByteByteGo …
Flamelit's AI operations playbook, presented at a recent panel on AI Adoption, argues that benchmarking is insufficient for evaluating AI agent harnesses because agents can modify their own prompts, m…
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…