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Here’s how I remember it—Chet Hendrickson came up to me in the middle of a project and said, “I could do this simplistic thing now but in 3 weeks that will be insufficient so since we’re going to need this more complicated thing I want to do it now.”
I said, “You aren’t going to need it.”
Chet said, “You don’t understand. We’re definitely going to need it. See, he...
When I had dogs if I pointed at something interesting they would just stare at my finger. No amount of gesturing or yelling would redirect their attention. I’m starting to feel like that.
AnalogiesI’ve always depended on analogy to communicate. Analogies like “XP is driving” have helped get my point across in ways that a bald statement of facts didn’t se…
Jessica Kerr joins Kent by the fire to argue that AI didn't take the programmer's job, it split it in two. The part we loved, crafting code by hand, has been commoditized like IKEA furniture. What's left is harder and more human: understanding what to build, proving it works, and stewarding the living "symmathesy" of people, code, and agents all learning from each other. They...
Randy Shoup set out to be an international lawyer. He studied in West Berlin when there was still a wall around it, spent a year at Stanford Law, and had what should have been the perfect summer internship on Sand Hill Road. Instead he spent it watching inventors light up whiteboards with brilliant ideas — then being told his job was just to write them down. That summer broke...