Specification-Driven Development (SDD) - some initial thoughts
June 12, 2025
The new craze in AI world is called Specification-Driven Development (SDD) and pioneered by GitHub SpecKit and probably other that I haven’t heard about yet.
It tries to solve the thing that many of us found troublesome with VibeCoding Dave Farley breaks this down here and instruct the AI on a lower level, taking more control of the details.
And it’s quite impressive, from what I’ve seen. Especially considering that it has a good what about existing code
but it misses the mark on two fundamental assumptions I think.
With the risk of this post being out-dated before the end of the day, and me being branded Old guy that just don't get it
- let me offer my thoughts on these two assumptions.