Honest conversations about fear, uncertainty, and what it means to build things when the ground keeps shifting.
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Honest conversations about fear, uncertainty, and what it means to build things when the ground keeps shifting.
Watch the SeriesEvery AI company is racing to claim they're the fastest, smartest, most transformative. The people actually building with these tools aren't buying hype anymore.
They're looking for honest conversation about what it actually feels like to work in this moment — the fear, the uncertainty, the quiet disorientation of tools changing faster than understanding can follow. Topics include AI-augmented coding, software design in the age of AI assistants, and what it means to be an engineer when the tools keep shifting.
Still Burning is a place to exhale. No certainty sold here.
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Host & Creator
Kent Beck is the creator of Extreme Programming and a signatory of the Agile Manifesto. He pioneered Test-Driven Development and has shaped how software is built for over four decades.
He writes Tidy First, a newsletter read by 123,000+ engineers, and is actively experimenting with AI-augmented development — exploring how AI is changing the craft of building software.
He's not here to sell certainty. He's here to sit with the questions — and to create a space where technical people can do the same without shame.
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