Great - Ken Beck (TDD) weighing in on AI/Agent amplified engineering.
It's a "new day"...new tools, new abstraction layer-unlock. And yet the fundamentals remain the same. Out approach and cognitive toolkit just ratcheted up (hallelujah).
Kent Beck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJiDBRh96oU
Also, Grady Booch weighing in on AI programming, after an excellent (first 2/3's of the interview) history of computing.
https://youtu.be/OfMAtaocvJw?si=HwAW-T8IHxWtv8xH
It's not all you needed to do to instantly win my heart (🫀), but it's damn well close.
Deep nervous system trust builds up over time - or is betrayed and violated through a thousand little cuts.
Hair-trigger ejector seat buttons carelessly left in the UX as critical as a command-line input, is such low-hanging fruit. And they caught it 🍏.
I've ranted about this - so glad to see it turn up in new product releases. There's some serious product talent going on there at OpenAI, and I though'd they'd abandoned ship, but no! They had just moved over to the Codex app.
The Codex mac-client is so clearly a V2 of the ChatGPT client - I can see why they let that wither, all the talent was over doing this second rev of the UI work into the new Codex app. I'd expect all of that to get rolled back over into the ChatGPT client at some point soon.
It's so much tighter.
