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 — You can also find this at: 📬 ⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠ 📺 ⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠ 📱 ⁠⁠Apple⁠
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