TDD, AI agents and coding with Kent Beck

• People want DWIM (Do What I Mean) - this isn’t the reality
• Agents are more like capricious genies - willing to cheat, misinterpret, subvert your underlying intentions
• Can be dangerously addictive - quick dopamine hits! But makes us inclined to take shortcuts/not sufficiently validate?

“The leverage of having big thoughts has gone up exponentially.”

Kind of a throwaway line, but the analogy of tension-release in a musical sense with TDD is neat. You think of a case (introducing a new idea), write a test which starts at red (tension), explore that a bit and figure out how to resolve it, and then get the test to green (release) before moving on to the next iteration.

The more I expect to learn, the less I want to commit to decisions upfront - flexible design decisions.