# Kent Beck and Randy Shoup discuss creativity, distributed systems, and AI

DevFeed: [Kent Beck and Randy Shoup discuss creativity, distributed systems, and AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/you-don-t-get-to-create-anything-39988.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/you-dont-get-to-create-anything-6cb>)

Author: Kent Beck

Published: 2026-06-03T14:05:11Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>)

## AI overview

Kent Beck and Randy Shoup discuss the motivation to create, the original distributed-systems playbook, AI's potential effects on it, and Jevons paradox as cognition becomes cheaper.

## Source excerpt

Randy Shoup set out to be an international lawyer.