Software Design: Tidy First?

Augmented Coding: Copy/Paste Detector

A way to help the genie make up for it's lack of design sense

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Kent Beck
Jun 09, 2025
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I’m going to put little lessons I learn augmented coding here as posts. Posts/notes/chat—Substack has a bit of a product problem. I want these out there, though, so I’ll post them to my paying subscribers first, then make them public in a month or so (if I remember to do so).

The most powerful question in software design is, “What elements would, should …

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