DOP 357: What Is Spec-Driven Development?

Victor, how did you start up your process when you started with AI? Did you just go from specs from day one, or what were you doing? Specs from day one.

The reasons are very simple for that.

I hit specs before AI, but I don't fully understand what's changed.

So even if you were just trying to come

up with

an idea, you would have specs? You would go that far versus just, see, you spend way too much time planning than I do.

Just to be clear, before AI, depending on whether I'm working a team or solo, I would always have specs.

But sometimes specs could be in my head.

So you had an idea.

It's always more than an idea.

It's not kind of like, hey, I have an idea.

I have no idea.

Should it be Go or should it be Python? Are we running it in cloud or am I running it below my desk? I never tried to do anything so unprepared.

There is always more than an idea.

There is more than I'm going to create, I don't know, DevOps agent.

What will you do? I don't know.

Where it will run, I don't know.

I mean, it might start like that.

But it progresses further than that before I start writing code.

So there is always spec.

What we should talk about is how detailed it should be.

And for some people, maybe there is no spec.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do.

But then it reminds me, you know, I don't know whether there is still in Google, at least before, if not still, there was, I'm feeling lucky button.

Maybe some people do it like that.

Victor, how did you start up your process when you started with AI? Did you just go from specs from day one, or what were you doing? Specs from day one.

The reasons are very simple for that.

I hit specs before AI, but I don't fully understand what's changed.

So even if you were just trying to come

up with

an idea, you would have specs? You would go that far versus just, see, you spend way too much time planning than I do.

Just to be clear, before AI, depending on whether I'm working a team or solo, I would always have specs.

But sometimes specs could be in my head.

So you had an idea.

It's always more than an idea.

It's not kind of like, hey, I have an idea.

I have no idea.

Should it be Go or should it be Python? Are we running it in cloud or am I running it below my desk? I never tried to do anything so unprepared.

There is always more than an idea.

There is more than I'm going to create, I don't know, DevOps agent.

What will you do? I don't know.

Where it will run, I don't know.

I mean, it might start like that.

But it progresses further than that before I start writing code.

So there is always spec.

What we should talk about is how detailed it should be.

And for some people, maybe there is no spec.

I literally don't know what I'm going to do.

But then it reminds me, you know, I don't know whether there is still in Google, at least before, if not still, there was, I'm feeling lucky button.

Maybe some people do it like that.