Kent Beck 🌻 ✓

@KentBeck · San Francisco, CA · joined 21 Oct 2008

Pioneered JUnit/xUnit, patterns, XP, TDD. Ex-Apple, Meta, Gusto, Mechanical Orchard. Learning to be me. Blogging at https://t.co/wJpBuSGJyB.

186 004Followers

849Following

17 156Posts total

14.5MViews on collected posts

Ultimi post

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck10 Sep

So glad to be part of this. Building trust while we build code is the inner loop of our future. 9.2K views · 22 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck10 Sep

🚀 Announcing ByteByteGo Live: learn AI live from real builders. I’ve spent the past 8 years on education: thousands of hours writing books, deep dive newsletters, YouTube, etc. Two issues I keep seeing are: 1) it’s very different to learn from real builders. 2) most online http

23K views · 126 likes · 23 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck6 Sep

@KentBeck Secret AI civilizations is doing an almost comical amount of emotional work here 4 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck6 Sep

@KentBeck You can hear it in humans remained it turns humans into spectators at their own institution 5 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck1 Sep

@KentBeck but it’s not like it can be done differently, try to write about how bats “see” the world 15 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck31 Aug

I think Dwarkesh's language in this piece is a reflection of his understanding of the human experience. 24.4K views · 82 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck29 Aug

Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes. This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself. All this happened while humans remained 14.4M views · 22.2K likes · 3.3K reposts · 1.1K replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck2 Aug

I asked my daughter Beth: how do we get the AI excited about writing tests? "First it needs an endocrine system." The model has no enthusiasm of its own. What exists is us plus the genie. The caring is still ours. 16.4K views · 123 likes · 7 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck1 Aug

A bonus Still Burning with my daughter, Beth Andres-Beck. I asked when she first knew she was a geek. Her answer: her first pun, at the fridge, "but that one's cheddar." What she remembers is that I laughed. That was the start of all of it. 8.3K views · 11 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Kent Beck 🌻 ✓@KentBeck27 Jan 2021

I am continuing work on "Tidy First? An Exercise In Empirical Software Design" as a @substack . No paid tier yet, but that's where book chapters will be appearing. Sign up here: https://t.co/yWuIaA0qwh. 0 views · 322 likes · 52 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

9 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 100K–1M follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.

Visualizzazioni mediane9 238questo account5 486mediana per 100K–1M

Copertura, %4.97%questo account1.78%mediana per 100K–1M

Interazione, %0.20%questo account1.17%mediana per 100K–1M

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 100K–1M	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	9 238	5 486	1.68×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	4.97%	1.78%	2.79×
Tasso di interazione	0.20%	1.17%	0.17×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

8.3K1 Aug

16.4K2 Aug

14.4M29 Aug

24.4K31 Aug

151 Sep

56 Sep

23K10 Sep

9.2K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%1 Aug

0.87%2 Aug

0.20%29 Aug

0.38%31 Aug

0.00%1 Sep

0.00%6 Sep

0.00%

0.68%10 Sep

0.29%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.17%.

What the audience does

Likes35.9%22 583 in total

Reposts5.4%3 374 in total

Replies1.8%1 152 in total

Quotes3.2%2 012 in total

Bookmarks53.7%33 746 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.