What Does This Mean?
A coding workflow where a detailed written specification is produced first and an AI agent implements against it, treating the spec rather than the prompt as the primary artifact steering the work.
EXPLAINER
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EXPLAINER
Codeless Developer · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Switched to spec-driven development, the agent stopped making things up halfway through."
LORE & ORIGIN
Emerged as a corrective to unstructured 'vibe coding' — practitioners found that agents produce dramatically more reliable output when working from an explicit spec instead of an ad hoc conversational prompt.
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