Tag: spec-driven development

Spec-Driven Development Isn’t Waterfall — But It Keeps Ending Up There

Posted on by Thiago Pacheco~9 min read

Spec-driven development promises control through living, iterative specifications. But without clear workflows and better tooling, teams keep falling into the same big-design-upfront trap that agile was invented to escape. A practitioner’s honest take on the gap between SDD’s vision and its current reality.

Spec-Driven Development Isn’t Waterfall — But It Keeps Ending Up There

The AI Productivity Lie Nobody Wants to Admit

Posted on by Thiago Pacheco~8 min read

Research shows AI makes experienced developers 19% slower, reduces code comprehension by 17%, and trust in AI output is declining. Yet the pressure to be dramatically more productive with AI keeps growing. Here is what the data actually says and how to find your confidence boundary.

The AI Productivity Lie Nobody Wants to Admit