When I say things like "delete the code, keep the spec," many people seem to interpret that as a rule: write the specification first, and only then are you a…
The Spec Can Come Later - The Phoenix Architecture
When I say things like "delete the code, keep the spec," many people seem to interpret that as a rule: write the specification first, and only then are you a…
When Does a Specification Become a Program? - The Phoenix Architecture
A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?
When Does a Specification Become a Program? - The Phoenix Architecture
A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?
When Does a Specification Become a Program? · The Phoenix Architecture
A spec can contain prose, tests, schemas, formal models, even executable code. The useful boundary is not the syntax but, rather, what survives: if you throw the implementation away, what has to remain so you can build the next one?
The Specification Is Not a Document - The Phoenix Architecture
Imagine joining a software project a few years from now. It is a large, mature system. It has thousands of business rules, years of operational experience,…
Specs 2
Specs 2 is an ecosystem for specs driven component development. Via the plugin, turn a selected Figma component or component set into a compact, complete, schema-valid specification — computed directly from the file, not inferred from a screenshot. From the command line, generate specs from an en...
oracle/agent-spec
Open Agent Spec (Agent Spec) is a framework-agnostic declarative language for defining agentic systems. It defines building blocks for standalone agents and structured agentic workflows as well as common ways of composing them into multi-agent systems.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Three Lenses on Coordination
Three Sets of Specs (for Staying in Spec) In the last post I talked about how systems formalisms are like sculpting with a chisel: we remove behaviors we don’t…
The Phoenix Primitives - The Phoenix Architecture
The architecture of a regenerative system is defined entirely by what you can't delete.
Production Is a Compiler Input - The Phoenix Architecture
Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty
Spec-Driven Development for serious software developers. Spec Coding with with Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Codex. Kanban dashboard, git worktrees, auto-merge and more.
Compile to Architecture - The Phoenix Architecture
For a long time we’ve treated frameworks as the target of software development. But if systems are meant to be regenerated and replaced safely, the real compilation target has to be the architecture itself.
Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, spec-kit, and Tessl
Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
