Honest conversations with Kent Beck about building in the uncharted territory we suddenly find ourselves back in.
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Honest conversations with Kent Beck about building in the uncharted territory we suddenly find ourselves back in.
Watch the SeriesA major technological shift has dropped us all back in Exploristan — Kent's name for the uncharted territory where nobody knows what works yet. Every builder is adapting on the fly, and Still Burning is where Kent Beck sits down with the people doing it.
He traces each guest's story from the moment they first knew they were a geek to what they're building now — and every conversation comes back to three questions: what stays true, what's changing, and what they're actually doing about it.
No hype. No certainty for sale. Just honest talk about staying adaptable when everything's in flux.
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Host & Creator
For four decades, Kent Beck has taught engineers one durable idea: build to adapt. Creator of Extreme Programming, signatory of the Agile Manifesto, and pioneer of Test-Driven Development, he's spent a career showing teams how to stay ready for change instead of bracing against it.
He writes Tidy First, read by 123,000+ engineers, and is working in public on what AI changes about the craft.
He's not here to sell certainty. He's here to ask the honest questions — and to build the kind of readiness that keeps teams safe.
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