Spec-driven development
What is Spec-driven development?
Spec-driven development is an approach where you write detailed specifications or requirements upfront before building code or AI systems, treating the spec as the blueprint that guides development rather than writing code first and figuring out the rules later.
As AI agents become more complex and autonomous, having rigorous specs upfront is emerging as a way to ensure they behave predictably and remain governable—shifting AI development from trial-and-error toward more controlled, specification-based construction.
References
- Full Course: Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents — YouTube
- 150th airhacks tv: Spec-Driven BCE, BCE vs Hexagonal, Agent JFR, J2EE to Quarkus #airhacks #live — YouTube
- Show HN: AntFlow AI: Agentic AI Framework for Spec-Driven Development — Hacker News
- Why AI Coding Needs Specs, Not Better Prompts [video] — Hacker News
- Spec-Driven Development 📱 — YouTube
- Coding Agents Just Killed the Keyboard: Inside the New 'Spec-Driven' Paradigm — YouTube
- Why Spec-Driven Development Tools Fail in the Enterprise — Hacker News
- Spec-Driven Development: BMAD, OpenSpec, and the Full Agentic Stack (Part 6) — Medium: AI Agents