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The Augmented Forest

Kent Beck | GOTO Copenhagen 2026

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As AI genies make programming more joyful in some ways, more fraught in others, how can we as individuals & teams adapt? How can we track a rapidly changing landscape of tools & still get stuff done? How can we communicate our new powers, strengths & weaknesses, to those without direct experience of programming? The Forest & Desert is a dialectical framing of software development as either resource-rich & resource replenishing or continually near starvation. The genie promises to intensify both experiences.

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As AI genies make programming more joyful in some ways, more fraught in others, how can we as individuals & teams adapt?

How can we track a rapidly changing landscape of tools & still get stuff done?

How can we communicate our new powers, strengths & weaknesses, to those without direct experience of programming?

The Forest & Desert is a dialectical framing of software development as either resource-rich & resource replenishing or continually near starvation.

The genie promises to intensify both experiences.

About the speakers

Kent Beck

Kent Beck

Creator of Extreme Programming, Co-authored the Agile Manifesto