Specs replace code? Not until specs stop lying
At a software engineering retreat last week, someone argued specs should replace code as the source...
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A brief and a spec are not the same thing.
We had a moment, early on, that I think a lot of teams are having right now. An engineer picked up a...
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Jun 24, 2026Term Paper Specifications
Top 10 Best Term Paper Specification Services (2026 Guide for Academic Writing Success) Main keyword:...
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I can't tell you why this code is the way it is.
Six months ago one of the engineers on my team shipped a Microsoft SSO integration. Worked first...
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Apr 12, 2026Your code is not the asset, your spec is
I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm not sure I have it fully figured out, but the...
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Mar 22, 2026The Specification as Quality Gate: Three Hypotheses on AI-Assisted Code Review
This is Part 4 of a four-part series, "The Specification as Quality Gate." Part 1 developed the...
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Mar 22, 2026What Specifications Cannot Catch: A Proposed Taxonomy of the Residual
This is Part 3 of a four-part series, "The Specification as Quality Gate." Part 1 developed the...
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Mar 22, 2026The Echo Chamber in Your Pipeline
This is Part 1 of a four-part series, "The Specification as Quality Gate." The series develops three...
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Mar 22, 2026From Complex to Complicated: What Executable Specifications Actually Do
This is Part 2 of a four-part series, "The Specification as Quality Gate." Part 1 developed the...
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Sep 23, 2019So, do you know how to build a software system for your client? (part 3 - modelling Requirements with Impact Maps)
Modelling Requirements with Impact Maps
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So, do you know how to build a software system for your client? (part 2 - the Requirements Domain)
Managing Requirements and creating Specifications
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So, do you know how to build a software system for your client? (part 1)
Managing Requirements and creating Specifications
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