The Augmented Forest

AI genies make programming more joyful in some ways and more fraught in others. Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and co-author of the Agile Manifesto, asks how individuals and teams can adapt: how to keep up with a tool landscape that changes every month and still get stuff done, and how to explain our new powers, strengths and weaknesses to people who have never programmed.

His lens is the Forest and the Desert, a way of seeing software development as either resource-rich and replenishing or living close to starvation. The genie intensifies both experiences, and Kent explores what that means for the way we work.