Jamie Taylor

Rather than going, hey, AI, build me the thing.

It's like, here's all of the information you need and maybe some research stuff.

Now go build it, right?

Which sounds like a really big lofty task, but actually spec kit helps you to do that by

If there are gaps in what you're telling the LLM, it says, hey, go to Google or your search engine of choice or look in the code and fill in the gaps of knowledge and tell the user what you've found, right?

So it's kind of a bit of both.

The idea is that we live in a world where the code is king and the specification is kind of this woolly thing that somebody else writes, maybe a business person, maybe a BA of some kind, maybe a project manager of some kind, someone who probably doesn't know much about the technology you're going to implement.

And that's a good thing and a bad thing, right?

We always want to try and

delay the technology decisions until the last minute because then that gives us more options to play with.

So in that respect, having someone who isn't technical, who isn't an engineer of some kind, having them write the spec makes that easier because they don't know what an ORM is or what programming language you're going to use, right?

So you get to make that decision.

And we've done that for a very long time where we'll write a spec and then we'll build the feature.

Well, this is actually flipping it on its head, where what you want to do is you want to keep the specification in source code, because then you can see where you've come from.

So rather than having your Jira tickets or your Trello tickets or whatever separate, you keep it all in-house in the code base.

And then you can see how we got to where we are.

So every time you build a feature, there's a bunch of files that you create with SpecKit that outline how that feature is meant to be built.

And then you finish that feature, merge back to main and carry on with your life, make another feature, merge back to main.

And then there's this like a record of who built what and when and what was the decisions.

Almost like having an ADR, like an architecture design record.