What motivates @KentBeck after 40+ years in software? Veteran creator of TDD, XP, JUnit and co-author of the Agile Manifesto, on what drives him to keep going: #1# - He’s not afraid to start new things “If there's a secret sauce to what I'm doing, it's not being afraid to start over. Look on my GitHub, you'll see project 1, project 2, project 3 and so on. I'll push it a certain amount, and then “the genie” runs itself out of options. It can't make further forward progress, and so I'll wipe it away. Start over. I won't try and tweak it." #2# - Coding with the AI “Genie” has brought back Kent’s creative impulse "That creative impulse is what's come back to me with 'the genie'. I can go, I wonder what a B+ tree looks like - and go, oh, here's an alternative, this adaptive radix tree. What does that look like? I can find out. I sit down with the genie, I work it out, and then there's this artifact that wasn't there before. That's there now because of my imagination and my work. I had gotten fed up with the stupid minutiae of programming." #3# - Kent has FORTY years worth of ideas to build out: “I've got 40 years worth of ideas that suddenly are back in play and I'm having so much fun making things that are real.”