Category: Spec-Driven Development
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AI Comprehension Debt: The Codebase Nobody Understands
Six months ago, a fintech team I work with shipped an authentication service in three days. Claude generated most of it, the senior engineer who prompted it reviewed and approved, and the service passed all tests. It worked. Last month, a different team member needed to modify the token refresh logic. She spent four days…
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AI-DLC in Practice: What Structured AI Development Actually Looks Like
Thirty engineers in a room. One feature to build. By the end of the day, they had a validated specification, working code, and infrastructure configuration, all generated from a structured intent document they wrote together that morning. In the feedback survey, the team rated the experience 9.7 out of 10. Every single respondent expressed interest…
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Mob Elaboration: What Happens When AI Runs the Requirements Room
The first time I facilitated a Mob Elaboration session, the Product Owner read the Intent aloud: a new customer onboarding flow for a financial services platform. Within four minutes, the AI had generated twelve user stories, acceptance criteria for each, a proposed domain model, and a decomposition into three independent units of work. A senior…
