Kent Beck re AI and software

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Aik-Siong Koh
Tue, Jul 7, 2026 12:49 PM
https://finance.biggo.com/news/9097cf7df0ff00c3
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Nicolas Anquetil
Wed, Jul 8, 2026 11:37 AM

[Beck] /core advice for the current moment is : try many cheap, stupid
ideas and start over without hesitation./

interesting article with inspiring views of Software engineering

/The real work of building software, he argues, has never been the
coding. It has been building trust — trust that the program does what it
should, trust among teammates that the design makes sense, trust with
users that the system won't fail them.

/[With AI] /"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating
trust," Beck said.
Coding is a small fraction of the activity. The rest — building
confidence, connections, and shared understanding — cannot be outsourced
to a tool that simply returns finished code.

/nicolas/
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On 7/7/26 14:49, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:

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Nicolas Anquetil
Evref team -- Inria Lille

[Beck] /core advice for the current moment is : try many cheap, stupid ideas and start over without hesitation./ interesting article with inspiring views of Software engineering /The real work of building software, he argues, has never been the coding. It has been building trust — trust that the program does what it should, trust among teammates that the design makes sense, trust with users that the system won't fail them. /[With AI] /"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating trust," Beck said. Coding is a small fraction of the activity. The rest — building confidence, connections, and shared understanding — cannot be outsourced to a tool that simply returns finished code. /nicolas/ / On 7/7/26 14:49, Aik-Siong Koh wrote: > https://finance.biggo.com/news/9097cf7df0ff00c3 -- Nicolas Anquetil Evref team -- Inria Lille
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Aik-Siong Koh
Wed, Jul 8, 2026 2:53 PM

Another view is
"It it works who cares."

Nicolas Anquetil wrote:

[Beck] /core advice for the current moment is : try many cheap, stupid
ideas and start over without hesitation./

interesting article with inspiring views of Software engineering

/The real work of building software, he argues, has never been the
coding. It has been building trust — trust that the program does what
it should, trust among teammates that the design makes sense, trust
with users that the system won't fail them.

/[With AI] /"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating
trust," Beck said.
Coding is a small fraction of the activity. The rest — building
confidence, connections, and shared understanding — cannot be
outsourced to a tool that simply returns finished code.

/nicolas/
/
On 7/7/26 14:49, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:

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Nicolas Anquetil
Evref team -- Inria Lille

Another view is "It it works who cares." Nicolas Anquetil wrote: > > [Beck] /core advice for the current moment is : try many cheap, stupid > ideas and start over without hesitation./ > > interesting article with inspiring views of Software engineering > > /The real work of building software, he argues, has never been the > coding. It has been building trust — trust that the program does what > it should, trust among teammates that the design makes sense, trust > with users that the system won't fail them. > > /[With AI] /"We're accumulating code faster than we're accumulating > trust," Beck said. > Coding is a small fraction of the activity. The rest — building > confidence, connections, and shared understanding — cannot be > outsourced to a tool that simply returns finished code. > > > /nicolas/ > / > On 7/7/26 14:49, Aik-Siong Koh wrote: >> https://finance.biggo.com/news/9097cf7df0ff00c3 > > -- > Nicolas Anquetil > Evref team -- Inria Lille >