Weekly Pomodoro 25.10 - 🇬🇧 LLMs or XP? What’s Really Boosting Developer Productivity
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Weekly Pomodoro 25.10 - 🇬🇧 LLMs or XP? What’s Really Boosting Developer Productivity
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But something else might be... Over the past few months, I’ve been watching a pattern emerge.
Devs rave about LLMs massively boosting their output. PMs boast about faster features. Founders post screenshots. VCs… well, they think they found the next gold mine. But when I zoomed in, something felt off.
The devs getting the most value from AI agents aren’t doing anything “new.” They’re doing this instead:
✅ Writing tight, testable code
✅ Working in small, iterative steps
✅ Focusing on feedback and flow
✅ Getting clarity before coding
✅ Refactoring relentlessly
Sound familiar? It should. That’s the original Extreme Programming (XP) playbook. And it’s looking more relevant now than ever—just wrapped in AI.
🚀 So what’s really driving productivity here?
→ Is it the machine, or the mindset?
→ The assistant, or the agile habits? I
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