Reality is the first step

Writing is closer to thought than code by Daniel Miessler is a nice piece about spec-driven development with agents. The basic premise especially caught my attention: I think the articulation of what you’re building, and why, is far more important. Basically, the idea. Your intent. I think the most important thing in any project you’re building with AI (and even without it), from building a web app, to starting a business, to managing a federation of planets, is how completely and accurately you articulate exactly what you want. Idea -> articulation -> code is a good model of how we make software, or more broadly products, but it misses the first step, and possibly also the last step, which is reality. Ideas or intent don’t just form on their own as a human thought, they are shaped by what we see and hear, and how we make sense of the world around us. In the majority of software development cases, the starting point is understanding the problems that someone (a customer, a client, the…

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