Spec-driven development meets agentic coding: specs, instructions, and an AI assistant bridging idea to implementation.

When Specs Become the Interface: Notes from a Talk on Spec-Driven Development and Agentic Frameworks

A couple of nights ago I caught myself doing something that would’ve sounded ridiculous just a year ago: I was “working” without writing code. Not in the I’m procrastinating way. In the I’m building the thing way. I had GitHub’s Spec Kit open in one tab, a chat window in another, and a repo that already felt… oddly more alive than most projects do at day zero. The weird part wasn’t that an LLM could generate code. We all saw that movie. ...

December 23, 2025 · 7 min · Kia Raad