Person/Kent Beck/Pod/26/06 A Learning System Made of Learning Parts
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- 2026-06-17
- Guest: Person/Jessica Kerr
- Episode of Kent Beck's Still Burning, titled S1E07 on YouTube.
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- Kent Beck and Jessica Kerr talk about how AI split the programmer's job in two. Crafting code by hand has been commoditized, like IKEA furniture. What remains is knowing what to build, proving that it works, and stewarding the "symmathesy" of people, code, and agents all learning from each other. Jessica explains the title with Nora Bateson's term: a symmathesy is a learning system made of learning parts.
- Other topics: accelerated learning cycles, play as a sign of learning, self-reinforcing patterns, and staying enthusiastic through constant change.
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