Software Design: Tidy First?

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Kent Beck
Sep 07, 2024
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Recapping, Paul Graham wrote a post about how a naive interpretation of the conventional advice to Founder CEOs doesn’t work—hiring experts as direct reports, delegating all responsibility to these experts, only communicating with them, & then lo & behold, it all falls apart. Here’s the money quote:

hire professional fakers and let them drive the company…

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