Kent Beck re AI and software
[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 â 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 â building confidence, connections, and shared understanding â 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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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 â 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 â building confidence, connections, and shared understanding â cannot be outsourced to a tool that simply returns finished code.
/nicolas/ / On 7/7/26 14:49, Aik-Siong Koh wrote:
-- Nicolas Anquetil Evref team -- Inria Lille
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