# How Do You Know That?

DevFeed: [How Do You Know That?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-do-you-know-that-39975.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/how-do-you-know-that>)

Author: Kent Beck

Published: 2026-07-22T14:10:06Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast conversation with Beth Andres-Beck about software engineering accountability, why teams may fail to write tests, how people learn to solve difficult problems, and what it means for an AI agent to lack its own drive.

## Source excerpt

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