The Tidy First Methodology: Interpreting and Applying Kent Beck's Augmented Coding

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 06:29:39 +0900

Dohyun Jung - Principal Consultant, ROBOCO

Lately I’ve been using Claude Code as my main working tool. The reason Claude Code performs so well is that it doesn’t execute a task immediately — it plans the work as a whole, systematically, then breaks it into small, clearly defined steps and carries them out one at a time.

Today I’d like to introduce one more useful methodology on top of that: the approach called “Augmented Coding,” proposed by Kent Beck — famous as the originator of TDD (Test Driven Development) — on his blog. Seeing that he, too, is obsessed with coining new terms, it looks like he’s in a hurry to grab a piece of the vibe coding wave. That said, since this approach is grounded in the content of a book Kent Beck wrote previously — Tidy First? by Kent Beck — I’ve decided, on my own authority, to call it the “Tidy First methodology.”

Kent Beck on ROBOCO

The Tidy First Methodology: Interpreting and Applying Kent Beck's Augmented Coding

Dohyun Jung - Principal Consultant, ROBOCO