Software Design: Tidy First?

Passing Tests Bore Me

Green. Yawn...

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Kent Beck
Apr 22, 2026
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Codex: For this thread, we’ve used a meaningful amount [of tokens] because we’ve done several code/read/test/commit cycles with large test outputs. The biggest token consumers today were the repeated full make test outputs and file/diff reads. If you want to conserve tokens going forward, I can keep using shorter command output caps and only surface sum…

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