Software Design: Tidy First?

Forest & Desert

Intentions & Actions

Git as an example

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Kent Beck
Nov 11, 2025
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I had an amazing customer experience early in the experiments with chat-based interfaces. I had an international flight & I had to move it by a day. I opened a chat with KLM, clearly got an action person, said “I want to depart a day earlier,” answered a question about which departure time I wanted (“same time”), and that was it. Magic!

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