How Spec-Driven Development Brings Structure to AI-Assisted Engineering and How We Put It to the Test
Mar 3 · 8 min read · AI coding assistants have made developers incredibly fast since the start of the AI boom, but this new speed often comes at a hidden cost. The IT industry is realizing that generating code is the easy
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How I Structure My Thinking in 2026: Learning New Things, Spec Driven Development for Responsible AI
Mar 1 · 9 min read · Originally published on nvarma.com The cherry plum tree in my backyard, as we go into the first week of spring 2026. Every year it starts from bare branches and turns into this. It felt like a fitting image for where I am right now — new skills blo...
Join discussionThe Spec IS the Code: The Rise of Spec-Driven Development
Feb 15 · 18 min read · TL;DR: Stop treating PRDs as static documentation and start treating them as executable source code. This post explores the shift to spec-driven coding, where high-precision requirements, grounded in your actual codebase, directly generate production...
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Spec-Driven Development: Ship Features with AI Guardrails
Feb 12 · 6 min read · Something has fundamentally shifted in how we build software. A year ago, if you told us we'd ship a production web application — 8 major features, 11 releases, 17,000 lines of TypeScript across a full-stack React + Express codebase — with AI writing...
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Vibe-engineering an OpenAPI compatible API authoring tool
Feb 8 · 6 min read · As an engineering lead, I spent most of my time architecting systems, writing issues, and translating business requirements into clean technical requirements which involve some form of API documentation and authoring DTOs. Defining the API as a contr...
Join discussionSpec-Driven Development Tutorial using GitHub Spec Kit
Jan 26 · 13 min read · Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is the idea of beginning every AI-assisted project with clearly defined requirements, not jumping right into code. This companion piece takes that idea from theory to practice. Here, we’ll walk through the complete workf...
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Kiro
Jan 17 · 3 min read · TL;DR Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS’s production layer for “bring your own agent”. You keep your preferred agent framework and models, while AWS provides secure, serverless hosting, networking, scaling, and observability. Kiro complements AgentCo...
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How to Write AI Agent Specs That Don't Fail
Jan 14 · 6 min read · GitHub released an open-source toolkit called Spec Kit in September 2025. Within weeks, developers on Reddit were arguing about whether specs actually help or just create more work. The answer? Both, depending on how you write them. Spec-driven AI ag...
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