Did We Do This to Ourselves? Kent Beck and Angie Jones on AI, Junior Devs, and the Impossible Bargain

Did We Do This to Ourselves? The AI Bargain Engineers Didn't Get to Negotiate

TLDR: Kent Beck sits down with Angie Jones, former "geek whisperer" and now head of the Agentic AI Foundation, to work through the uncomfortable question of whether the software industry handed AI companies the tools to displace the very engineers who built them. The conversation covers what AI adoption looks like from the inside of a major program that got shut down, why hiring junior developers has become genuinely fraught, and what an open-standards future for agentic software might look like.

Did We Do This to Ourselves?