Beck was one of the 17 authors of the 2001 paper the "Agile Manifesto," which outlines four values and 12 principles for faster software development. The paper inspired the "agile method" of software development, which became commonplace in Silicon Valley because of its efficiency-boosting techniques. The introduction to the Agile Manifesto, co-authored by Kent Beck and 16 others in 2001. Agile ManifestoToday, AI is already being used to replace human labor, particularly in programming, where it's hitting early-career engineers the hardest while simultaneously speeding up software development. "'If you're going to make me do all this work, I'm just going to delete all your tests and pretend I'm finished, ha, ha, ha.'"