Still Burning

Kent Beck

Kent Beck has spent 40 years watching and guiding engineers through their careers. He's made note of what it takes to help engineers stay sharp, stay curious, and keep building for decades. What he's learned is less about any one skill and more about adaptability itself; what it takes to be the kind of person who keeps up. Kent sitting down with geeks in front of a fire to talk about their careers, and what they're still doing to stay adaptable in today's landscape. Real stories, real engineers, real honest.

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Still Burning

Episodes (9)

Jul 22nd How Do You Know That?
Jul 1st Air Traffic Control
Jun 17th A Learning System Made of Learning Parts

Still Burning

Jul 22, 2026
39¼ minutes
36 MB

A bonus edition by the fire: Kent talks with his oldest, Beth Andres-Beck — software engineer, one-time self-driving-car programmer, theater major, organizer, and now a candidate for Congress. They start with a cheese pun and end up somewhere serious: why people don't write tests and how you actually get a team to start, what it means that an AI agent has no endocrine system of its own, and who is accountable when "the computer" makes the call. Along the way, a car that solved a roadblock by driving up onto the sidewalk, an org-design trick called the Guild of Guilds, an...

Still Burning

How Do You Know That?

Kent Beck

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