# A Learning System Made of Learning Parts

DevFeed: [A Learning System Made of Learning Parts](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-learning-system-made-of-learning-parts-39969.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/a-learning-system-made-of-learning>)

Author: Kent Beck

Published: 2026-06-17T13:22:28Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Software Design: Tidy First?](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/software-design-tidy-first.md>)

Topics: [Learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/learning.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/thoughts.md>)

## AI overview

Jessica Kerr discusses how AI is changing programming work, arguing that it divides the programmer's role into code production and more human-centered work such as deciding what to build, verifying that it works, and maintaining a learning system of people, code, and agents.

## Source excerpt

Jessica Kerr joins Kent by the fire to argue that AI didn't take the programmer's job, it split it in two.