---
title: "$50,000 to build a Cool Tool?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/22/50000-to-build-a-cool-tool.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/6/22/50000-to-build-a-cool-tool.html"
published: "2005-06-22T21:49:00"
updated: "2005-06-22T21:49:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "hmmm... $50,000. Sounds like fun. Let the thinking game begin. (via Rocky )"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# $50,000 to build a Cool Tool?

By Roy Osherove June 22, 2005 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 22, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

hmmm... $50,000. Sounds like fun.

[Let the thinking game begin.](http://www.csdevcompetition.com/)

(via [Rocky](http://www.lhotka.net/WeBlog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f18d4ee3-aa01-4b03-bca7-481d144a6c18))

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- Jun 18, 2005

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
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