Ask HN: Are you still using spec driven development?
3 points - yesterday at 1:15 AM
Especially interested in people using AI for brownfield development, but generally interested in if people are continuing down the spec driven path, or if agents + skills/prompts/mcp/agents.md/something else is filling the niche spec driven development was trying to capture.
Question was prompted by seeing spec kit have no commits for over a month an no obvious integration with GitHub’s new agents integration.
firemelt
yesterday at 6:26 PM
id there really a development without a spec?
even though u not write it there is still a specification in ur brain when you type the code/prompt right?
cherry_tree
yesterday at 1:16 AM
Personally, I still find tools like spec kit give reliably good results in brownfield codebases, but that as I’ve improved my ability to break apart work and describe it, straight prompting has come back as a viable method to perform simple changes.