#spec-driven-development

From Prompt to Production: The Spec-Driven Workflow I Use With Claude Code

A practical system for turning complex, high-stakes system designs into reliable, production-grade architecture.

From Spec to NestJS CQRS: Building Type-Safe Architectures

📚 This Article Series: Part 7 of a 10-week sequence on Advanced Architecture & AI Automation — bridging Spec-Driven Development with…

I Lead My AI Models Like a Design Team

TL;DR: The hard part of working with multiple AI models is not prompting. It is project leadership. And design leads already have the…

SDD and automated documentation generation: when the spec becomes the source of truth

Outdated documentation is an architecture problem, not a discipline problem. How spec-driven development turns the spec into the source of…

The Antigravity Loop: From Chat to Autonomous Engineering

How to go from pair-programming with AI to fully hands-off autonomous engineering and when each mode actually shines

The Missing Half of Spec-Driven Development

I’ve been using spec-driven development for a while now — on my own projects and on a couple of recent client engagements. Spec Kit, Kiro…

Goal driven development using Codex

The hype thing today (we are June 2026) seems to be loop engineering, which had its early start as Ralp Wiggum loop and is now everywhere…

Mastering Multi-Agent Orchestration in Google Antigravity

How to Build a Custom Spec-Driven Orchestration with the agy CLI

Designing Zero-Bug Checkout APIs: Handling Race Conditions with SDD

📚 This Article Series: Part 5 of a 10-week sequence on Advanced Architecture & AI Automation — securing critical API transactions with…

Spec Kit Explained: How GitHub Is Trying to Fix “Vibe Coding” With Specs That Actually Compile Into…

A deep dive into GitHub’s open-source Spec-Driven Development toolkit — the workflow, the folder structure, the commands, and where it…

Standard Operating Procedure: Spec-Driven Development (SDD) with Spec-Kit and GitHub Copilot

Purpose: To outline a structured, spec-first approach to software development using Spec-Kit and GitHub Copilot. This workflow ensures that…

Your AI’s Best Plan Disappears When You Close the Tab

Better Specs with Adversarial AI and Glossary Skills

Multi-Model Spec Review and Glossary Skills using OpenSpec and OpenCode

Spec-Driven Development, Minus the Vibes: A Scientific Approach to Coding Agents

Why my coding agent can write the code, tests, plan, and review notes, but still does not get the final merge.

Spex — A Skill & CLI for Spec-Driven Development

What is Spex?

Vendor Lock-In in Spec-Driven Development — Five Dependency Layers and How to Price Them

SDD doesn’t eliminate vendor lock-in — it moves it up: from model to format, toolchain, and nondeterministic generator. A map of five…

Most People Are Underestimating Spec-Driven Development

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a growing number of discussions about Spec-Driven Development (SDD).

I Had a SaaS Project Sitting in a Drawer for Years. Kiro Shipped It in One Day

You know that project.

Spec-Driven Development in Regulated Industries — Audit, Traceability, and Proof of Compliance

In regulated industries, spec is legal evidence, and SDD produces that artefact. But the chain ends at a non-delegable human signature.

Spec-Driven Development ในยุค AI จะช่วยทีมทำงานได้เร็วขึ้น?

ตลอดเวลาที่โลกได้มีกระบวนการทำซอร์ฟแวร์ขึ้นมา “การเขียนโค้ด” มักเป็นคอขวดในกระบวน ที่มนุษย์ต้องใช้เวลาในการรังสรรค์โค้ดทีละบรรทัด…

Spec-Driven Development vs.

Why “vibe coding” is creating a security crisis — and why specification rigor is the only viable defense.

Readiness Is the Work

Earlier this week in “The Bottleneck Was Never the Code,” I made one argument: AI has made the build fast and abundant, and the…

SuperSpecs: The Discipline Framework That Stops Your AI Agent From Going Rogue

How spec-driven planning, enforced TDD, and a wiki that never forgets finally tame the chaos of AI-assisted software development

Use AI as a Design Partner, Not Just a Coder: Start Complex Features with a Case Table

AI’s exhaustiveness and speed are used as-is, while its two weaknesses — hallucination and “looks done” — are contained by the structure of

The Loudest Proof That SDD Works at Scale Is One Account, Not an Audit — Mercado Libre

Full case study of SDD adoption at Mercado Libre — what’s confirmed, what’s a lead, what’s missing, and how to read enterprise SDD evidence…

My Workflow with Claude: Spec-Driven Development with AgentSpec

we should identify the what and why needs to be done, AI will discover how.

Is Spec-Driven Development Just Waterfall in Disguise?

There is a fair question people are starting to ask:

Your AI Coding Agent Is Not the Problem. Your Lack of Specifications Is.

By Nisarg Gandhi

Beyond the code: A candid chat with BMad creator, Brian Madison

Written by Cian Clarke, Head of AI at Nearform

Spec-Driven Development 2026–2030: Forecasts, Trends, and Two Scenarios for the Future

Where Spec-Driven Development will be in 2030 — a trend map grounded in 2026 data, lock-in and skill atrophy risks, and two contrasting…

From Vibes to Specs: A Practical Guide to Spec-Driven Development with Claude Code

What spec-driven development is, why it matters, and how to operationalize it across an engineering team — without turning every CSS tweak…

Living documentation in SDD: spec drift, 6 traps, and the sync-owner-gate mechanism

Living documentation doesn’t die from laziness — it dies from missing a mechanism. Spec drift, 6 traps, and the sync-owner-gate trio that…

Spec-Driven Development with Agents, 71 Specs Later

I recently released Speakroom, a voice-first app for practicing a foreign language. For me that means Japanese, but the app now supports 24…

OpenSpec + arquitectura hexagonal: specs que protegen tu dominio

Le pedí a mi agente “un endpoint de registro”. Me devolvió un handler de 300 líneas: validaba el email, hablaba con la base de datos…

ADHD and the new (?) agentic development paradigm

Hi! It’s been a while!

O PRD é o Novo Código-Fonte?

Nos últimos anos, a forma como construímos software mudou drasticamente.

The Spec-Driven Development Won. Now Comes the Hard Part.

One year after declaring vibe coding dead, the June 2026 data is in: SDD is vendor doctrine, the IDE is becoming optional, and governance…

Formal Verification in Spec-Driven Development — Enterprise Level

In regulated enterprise, a specification becomes an executable contract. Why AI-generated code must be proven with formal methods, not just…

I Spent 6 Months Vibe Coding. Here’s Why I’ll Never Do It Again.

A developer’s honest account of the moment specs stopped being documentation and became the actual product.

Make Your AI Agent Stop Making Things Up. A Practical Guide to SDD (Spec Driven Development)

Remember prompt and pray?

AI-assisted spec writing: conversational specs, 5 techniques, and spec hallucination | SDD

ROI of Spec-Driven Development: how to calculate time-to-market and defend it to the board

The real savings from SDD come from shift-left, not from faster code. Here’s a three-component ROI model you can defend to the board number…

The Grand Prix Model of AI Delivery

AI-native software development — what the practitioners call Spec Driven Development is genuinely different.

Spec-Driven Development vs. Waterfall — Power Inversion and the Cost of Change

SDD is not a return to waterfall but a fixed version of it: the specification is alive, and the cost of change decouples from the project…

Your AI Tool Will Change. Your Workflow Shouldn’t Have To.

When every engineer uses a different AI coding tool with different conventions, you get fragmented workflows, lost context, and invisible…

Teaching an AI Agent to Know Your Microservices: Markdown, RAG, and Graph Knowledge Bases

A beginner-friendly guide to knowledge bases for AI agents — and a head-to-head test of three approaches: plain Markdown, Graph-RAG, and a…

Vibe Coding Without Specs Is Just Vibing

so you think you’re pretty good at structured vibe coding??

Next trends in the Evolution of Spec-Driven Development

The Maturation of Spec-Driven Development in the Era of Agentic Orchestration

Spec Driven Development no Cursor

Laboratório Prático: construindo uma API para manter um catálogo de produtos com Spec Driven Development no Cursor

Token economy with SDD: How to burn GPUs the right way?

NOTE: All code examples in the appendix sections are experiments. I am sure there are better ways to do this. Take ideas and write better.