A developer argues that Gherkin and BDD were never primarily about testing but served as a coordination treaty between product, QA, and engineering. With AI reducing coordination costs, such artifacts…
A developer argues that AI evaluations are structurally identical to traditional software tests, just rebranded with new terminology. The post claims that the eval-tooling stack—golden datasets, judge…
A senior software engineer argues that prompts are disposable while skills are infrastructure, drawing on frameworks from Dan Shapiro and Nate B. Jones. The engineer identifies Gherkin scenario qualit…
AI coding agents now edit repositories, run commands, and produce branches, making the specification before the work more critical. The spec carries the context, boundaries, and success criteria the a…
A senior software engineer building a CI pipeline for a specification-driven project discovered that a failing test from a previous issue would have caused the pipeline to fail on day one. The enginee…