Spec Driven Development: Build Software That Actually Does What You Promised

<p>Have you ever spent weeks building a backend API, only to have the frontend team tell you, <em>"Wait, this isn't the data format we agreed on"</em>? </p> <p>In traditional

<p><strong>Have you ever started coding a feature, only to realize halfway through that your architecture is hopelessly tangled?</strong> We’ve all been there. You start writing a

<p>I read the phrase "spec-driven development" and immediately decided it was for people without taste. Six months later, Claude Code generated a discount system that applied

<p>Most payment specs I've reviewed describe the happy path in three pages and the failure behavior in one sentence: <em>"retry on error."</em></p> <p>That sentence is where 80%

<p>Have you ever looked at code you wrote six months ago and thought: <em>"Who wrote this monster?"</em>? Relax, it happens to all of us.</p> <p>In software engineering, writing