Coding with Genies

A Learning System Made of Learning Parts

Jessica Kerr joins Kent by the fire to argue that AI didn't take the programmer's job, it split it in two.

Jun 17 • Kent Beck

Genie Sessions: Run, Right, and Fast for the Adaptive Radix Tree

A recording from Kent Beck's live video

May 2 • Kent Beck

59:23

Genies give you code that’s a degraded facsimile of the mediocre code it trained on.

Apr 29 • Kent Beck

Genie Lessons: Nobody Wants Agents

Genie Lesson #5 | Tool: Intent (Augment Code)

Apr 23 • Kent Beck

1:01:35

Starving Genies

What 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract says about throttling

Apr 3 • Kent Beck

The Pinhole View of AI Value

Focusing only on headcount reduction is like saying the only value of a car is that you don’t have to pay for a horse.

Feb 4 • Kent Beck

Genie Sessions: Optionality

A recording from Kent Beck's live video

Jan 30 • Kent Beck

1:04:23

Taming the Genie: "Like Kent Beck"

Does it help? Not by itself but yes with a little more guidance.

Jan 20 • Kent Beck

The Precious Eyeblink

You’re typing.

Dec 29, 2025 • Kent Beck

Party of One for Code Review!

In 1976, Michael Fagan published “Design and Code Inspections to Reduce Errors in Program Development” in the IBM Systems Journal.

Dec 26, 2025 • Kent Beck

The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better

Why genies can make hiring juniors more profitable, & what you need to change to get there

Dec 12, 2025 • Kent Beck

Why Does Development Slow?

It's the options

Nov 19, 2025 • Kent Beck

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