Sustainable Augmented Development • Kent Beck • YOW! 2025

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Kent Beck - Software Engineer & Creator of Extreme Programming @KentLBeck 

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ABSTRACT
Genies are great at cranking out features. Unfortunately they don’t clean the kitchen as they cook. Progress slows then stops as yesterday’s expedient decision becomes today’s roadblock.

What would it take to get the trajectory in red instead of the one in blue?
• Development in small steps validated by automated tests
• Periodic pauses in feature development to improve structure and thus increase optionality
• Potentially a new approach to augmented coding manipulating the tree structure of the code, not just the tokens

Sound familiar? [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
06:26 Cello-Story
08:10 Programming in uncertain times
13:03 3X: Explore Expand Extract
27:20 Feature drag
43:52 Junior developer: Profit over time
49:25 Closing thoughts
58:26 Outro

Read the full abstract here:
https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3896

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Kent Beck • Tidy First? • https://amzn.to/4gscjjK
Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3sBASDG
Kent Beck • Test Driven Development • https://amzn.to/3U4AXLs
Kent Beck, Fowler, John, William, Don & Gamma • Refactoring • https://amzn.to/3SFBYbN
Kent Beck • Implementation Patterns • https://amzn.to/3sBlCGL

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