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Generation Gap or Just Rude?

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Kent Beck
Feb 10, 2026
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This weekend I had the first experience talking to someone of a younger generation where I felt completely lost. I wasn’t just encountering a person with different values or different experiences making different tradeoffs with different resources, I was talking to a member of an alien species. We would never find common ground. The shock of it was enou…

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