Software Design: Tidy First?

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Return of Multi-tasking?

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Kent Beck
Jun 16, 2025
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Before you start, I’m not advocating for anything here. I spent a large part of my career giving people permission to work on one thing at a time (run/right/fast, interface/implementation, behavior/structure). As I integrate genies into my work more fully, though, I notice myself doing something that looks like multi-tasking more & more.

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