Refactoring Podcast

The State of Software Engineering — with Kent Beck

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Today’s guest is Kent Beck, original signer of the Agile manifesto, creator of Extreme Programming, and all-round programming legend.

With Kent we had the unique opportunity to talk about the big picture. I inquired him about the state of the software engineering craft today, discussing things like:

(00:00) Introduction

(02:27) Agile vs Power Structures
(08:37) The Return of Waterfall
(12:33) Extreme Programming & TDD
(23:29) Feedback Loops
(33:46) Code Reviews & Stacked diffs
(43:06) AI for Writing and Engineering

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