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When the Spec Becomes the Source: What Spec-Driven Development Asks of Your Specs

May 7, 2026

Something quiet has shifted in how engineering teams build with AI agents. A year ago, a feature began as a Jira ticket, became a design doc, became code, and the documentation lived a short life. Today, more teams are writing the specification first — in a structured form a coding agent can consume — and treating the spec, plan, tasks, and constitution as the primary artifacts. The code is generated downstream.