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Kent Beck
@kentbeck.com

From my bonus Still Burning with my daughter, Beth Andres-Beck: Why do we keep building agents to run without us? Beth's answer: there's a nervousness about including people at all. We call things "automated" so no one has to be responsible.

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Benjamim Castell
@agilelie.com

Cleanest version of a pattern I watched for 25 years. In banking, automating a control was often less about speed and more about removing a name from the decision. When it worked nobody needed credit. When it failed nobody had signed, so nobody owned it. Automated is where accountability goes to die