| 1. | | Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training (kentbeck.com) |
| 32 points by KentBeck 32 days ago | past | 6 comments |
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| 2. | | The Pinhole view of the value of AI as simply reducing payroll costs is wrong (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck 7 months ago | past |
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| 3. | | Tokens: The New Oil or Engineering in Spite of Scarcity (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on July 19, 2025 | past |
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| 4. | | First Feedback Filter–reducing regret in responding to negative feedback (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 1 point by KentBeck on July 15, 2025 | past |
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| 5. | | In which I write a library-quality B+ tree with the genies (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 5 points by KentBeck on June 25, 2025 | past |
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| 6. | | Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 102 points by KentBeck on June 10, 2025 | past | 76 comments |
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| 7. | | Hand-Drawn Illustrations–A workflow argument (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 1 point by KentBeck on March 21, 2025 | past |
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| 8. | | Programmers who create more files have those files modified by others more often (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on Jan 27, 2025 | past |
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| 9. | | Should bugs be anti-holidays–infrequent and interruptive? (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on Jan 3, 2025 | past |
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| 10. | | Developing Software in a Forest vs. a Desert (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 3 points by KentBeck on Nov 11, 2024 | past |
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| 11. | | Why the Insurance Industry Rationally Fails Its Social Purpose (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 3 points by KentBeck on Oct 25, 2024 | past |
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| 12. | | Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 57 points by KentBeck on Sept 16, 2024 | past | 40 comments |
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| 13. | | Humans >> Data – The Myth of Measuring Developer Productivity (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on Aug 8, 2024 | past |
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| 14. | | TDD is Not Hill Climbing (except where it is) (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 12 points by KentBeck on July 1, 2024 | past | 5 comments |
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| 15. | | Software design gets worse before it gets better (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 233 points by KentBeck on June 19, 2024 | past | 140 comments |
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| 16. | | Not my money any more: Lessons from poker (2010) (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 32 points by KentBeck on Dec 15, 2023 | past | 16 comments |
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| 17. | | TDD isn't software design, it's design *feedback (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on Dec 8, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| 18. | | Coding in the Debugger (2007) (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 75 points by KentBeck on Sept 28, 2023 | past | 31 comments |
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| 19. | | Timing software design: “Later, if that's responsible” (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 1 point by KentBeck on Sept 26, 2023 | past |
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| 20. | | Publish Everything (Pretty Much) (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 69 points by KentBeck on Aug 10, 2023 | past | 26 comments |
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| 21. | | Template for Impactful Ideas (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 75 points by KentBeck on Aug 7, 2023 | past | 12 comments |
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| 22. | | Executive summary of bi-temporality–eventual business consistency (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on Aug 4, 2023 | past | 1 comment |
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| 23. | | Emotions: A Code Book (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 139 points by KentBeck on July 24, 2023 | past | 57 comments |
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| 24. | | Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 225 points by KentBeck on July 13, 2023 | past | 50 comments |
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| 25. | | Accounts/transactions enable you to replay history (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 2 points by KentBeck on July 12, 2023 | past |
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| 26. | | Paint Drip People (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 70 points by KentBeck on July 6, 2023 | past | 34 comments |
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| 27. | | More What, Less How: Coding with LLMs (but also every technical revolution ever) (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 3 points by KentBeck on April 22, 2023 | past |
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| 28. | | I chose “empirical” to describe my style of software design (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 1 point by KentBeck on April 18, 2023 | past |
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| 29. | | How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 173 points by KentBeck on March 21, 2023 | past | 36 comments |
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| 30. | | Software design also saves money by discouraging errors (tidyfirst.substack.com) |
| 1 point by KentBeck on March 17, 2023 | past |
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