Software Design: Tidy First?

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Thoughts, Not Thinking?

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Kent Beck
May 08, 2026
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I saw a post on the changing build/buy/customize tradeoff & thought, “I should weigh in. The XP world has been grappling with this for decades.”

I dug in. Figured out the tradeoff curves. Speculated how they would change. It’s a pretty good framework, I think. I learned things putting it together.

But…

(There I go with the Boomer Ellipsis thing…) I looked …

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