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This tweet argues that Spec-Driven Development is ineffective for AI agents, drawing parallels to the failure of waterfall methodology in software development. It advocates for 'intent engineering'—communicating context, strategy, and constraints to agents to handle unknown unknowns.
An AI agent that writes no code but helps build Friday sprint reviews, highlighting a specific productivity use case.
A podcast interview with Kent Beck covers his career from early programming to Agile and TDD, emphasizing the importance of human skills in software engineering.
Kent Beck clarifies that the YAGNI principle is not about saving coding effort but about avoiding the costs of speculative structure—building code before it's needed. He argues that even correct guesses incur a penalty because they remove the option to build the right structure later.
Describes a specialized multi-agent system for code review with distinct roles and persistent state, open-sourced as agile-team-skill, which separates reviewer and decision-maker roles to improve code quality and process memory.