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The 3am Engineer Who Couldn't Find the Answer
Your best engineer quit. Your on-call just got paged. The service is down. Nobody who's awake has ever touched this code. This is the cost of undocumented identity.
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Thinking on software identity, agentic development, and the engineering decisions that persist.
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What Is Spec-Driven Development? The Definitive Guide
Spec-driven development is a paradigm where specifications are the primary artifact and AI agents generate code from them. Here's how it works, who's doing it, and where it's heading.
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Your Best Engineers Are Now Full-Time Reviewers. That's a Problem.
AI 10x'd code generation. Code review capacity didn't scale. Senior engineers are drowning.
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You Ship Code You Don't Understand. That's Called Debt.
Werner Vogels coined verification debt. Addy Osmani coined comprehension debt. 96% of developers don't trust AI output, but only 48% verify it. That gap has a name now.