Software Design: Tidy First?

Thinkies

Thinkie: Fix Time, Flex Scope

And applying it to the genie

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Kent Beck
Oct 09, 2026
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Pattern: You’re in a loop where longer & longer feedback loops seem to give you bigger results.

Transformation: Fix the time for the feedback loop instead & figure out how to gradually get more scope into the loop.

This came up recently when I was re-conceiving augmented coding around human needs. We’re getting longer & longer feedback loops. Anthropic re…

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