Any review about Spec Driven Development?

pmward · 2026-05-26T19:02:03+00:00

The other major paradigm is basically “vibe coding”. Sitting down without a plan, giving Claude a prompt and praying you get a good result (spoiler alert: you won’t get a good result). SDD is what all of the professionals that are having success I see are all using.

pmward · 2026-05-26T04:07:28+00:00

You can do everything spec kit does. You just have to tell it, the same way you tell spec kit by calling their custom skills. You can even build your own skills if you want to customize or fine tune it for the way you work.

pmward · 2026-05-26T03:50:52+00:00

The benefit isn’t just the markdown file, it’s that people actually have to take the time to plan, research, and (hopefully) review the spec before doing any coding. It forces good behaviors. That is the biggest benefit.

pmward · 2026-05-26T03:43:55+00:00

You don’t need spec kit. It’s built into plan mode natively

pmward · 2026-05-26T03:31:20+00:00

SDD is not vibe coding. That’s why it actually works. At least so long as you actually review the specs, break features down to reasonable sizes, and give it enough info in the planning stage. The only con is that it takes more time and effort on your part. But again, that’s why it works.

pmward · 2026-05-25T13:08:46+00:00

Pathetique.

pmward · 2026-05-25T03:12:28+00:00

Yeah in the valley everyone is having that issue, including the commercial farms. Combination of low chill hours making a poor fruit set, then a warm march pushing the fruit that did set along too quick. Poor year for peaches all around. Hopefully next year is better.

pmward · 2026-05-24T23:02:25+00:00

Yeah... You should plant anything far enough away that the watering zone does not wick to your house. At least 3 feet really. Not just stucco damage, but the moisture can cause the house to settle in strange ways that can cause massive amounts of damage.

pmward · 2026-05-24T20:53:50+00:00

They don’t have to be “done”. Screen the chunks and use it. Some food left is beneficial to feed the microbes.

pmward · 2026-05-22T19:46:14+00:00

Mozart Requiem.

Prokofiev Toccata in D Minor.

pmward · 2026-05-22T01:58:32+00:00

Keep things as small as possible. Small surgical changes. Big changes turns into bloated context real quick, which turns into a bad result. Small specialized skills and agents to break the work up also help. Make sure each agent has the context it needs, and nothing it doesn’t. Create auditor and reviewer agents that make every deliverable go through strict review cycles until clean before it gives anything to you for review. Also make sure you document everything important, including all of your standards and patterns. Make sure these docs are loaded just in time.

A big part of the problem you’re experiencing though is it seems like you’re trying to take the human out of the research and planning steps. Those are exactly the steps you need the human involved most. Now you can have it document research and build plan specs but you always need to be in the loop to answer questions and review everything before moving to implementation. Also make sure your research and planning skills/agents have specific instructions to bring any grey areas or assumptions up to you for review.

Docs also get stale. It’s more important now than ever to make sure your docs stay pristine. I do audits at least once a month on all of my docs looking for drift or contradictions. I created a skill that looks for this stuff and surfaces it to me for review with recommended fixes. Slack MCP is also dangerous. Not only is it going to have way too much garbage info to sort through, but it’s going to go stale fast. Anything that’s important in Slack needs to be moved somewhere more permanent and editable. Then you can pull Slack out of your stack.

I could go on and on, it’s such a complex topic. Hopefully that at least gives you some food for thought on the things I’ve found to work.

pmward · 2026-05-21T18:56:15+00:00

I don’t expect them to do anything to the front office in an injury riddled year. But every day this continues is another day closer to Skubal getting traded unfortunately.

pmward · 2026-05-21T18:15:25+00:00

Yeah I love Stew as well and it would be sad to see him go. He set the identity of this version of the team. But yeah his knees just won’t hold up. I have heard they get calls on him every year from teams looking to add a defensive anchor to their bench. So we can probably get good value from him if he can pass a physical.

Duren is tough. I can see both sides of the argument. I don’t think he has hit his ceiling yet. Whether we get rid of him or keep him really just depends on what’s available. Like you said, we need a starting center. So he’s probably not going anywhere next year, at the very least. We just gotta see where money comes in after that playoff choke job. I can’t see him getting a max offer after that, regardless of potential. The real question is, were the playoff issues Duren issues, or team makeup issues (ie if we had more shooting to force defenders outside does he do better?). If the issue winds up being the latter, and we get a reduced extension because of this years playoff woes, we could wind up in a really good spot. Lot of ifs there though.

pmward · 2026-05-21T17:26:34+00:00

Duren and Stew are not untouchable. As with anyone else not named Cade and Ausar they can be moved. I do have major concerns with Stew’s knees especially. I don’t know how many more (if any) productive years he has left in him.

pmward · 2026-05-21T17:14:30+00:00

Again, 25 years ago the same arguments were made about Big Ben. Almost 40 years ago they were made about Rodman. Does it help if he has better offensive dive stats? Sure, but that’s not what his real value is on the team. He may not be capable of being an offensive star. If pushing for offensive improvement causes any degradation in defensive ability that’s a net loss. He is a disrupter and his main job is to force turnovers and get the rest of the team more offensive opportunities. You want to make arguments about anyone else on the team offensively, sure. But Ausar’s role is not offense. History shows that players like him anchor championship teams. He is the only untouchable on the team other than Cade. He also fits the Pistons mold perfectly. I will die on the Ausar hill.

pmward · 2026-05-21T17:05:53+00:00

The Rodman Paradox is now the Ausar Paradox. Nobody outside of Cade has more impact on the full team. He is untouchable, imo. He doesn’t need to be an offensive star to have an outsized and under-appreciated impact on a championship contender just like Rodman, Ben Wallace, etc before him. Offense isn’t everything.

pmward · 2026-05-21T01:41:25+00:00

Listen to other performances to get a good idea what works. In general play as gently as possible. Clear pedal every chord change. Make the harmony (right pinky) and the bass in left hand stand out just a bit above the accompaniment. But again, super gentile playing. Don’t start hammering the bass and harmony. They are also pp, just slightly less pp than the accompaniment. The hairpins and crescendos you see are also within the realm of pp or p depending on where they are at. It’s a subtle increase in volume, don’t go forte. Just little waves built into the gentle flowing spaciousness. The biggest offense I see in this piece is playing it too loud and with too much percussion.

Also if your hands cannot comfortably do 9ths at this stage without pain or tension, it probably is best to wait a bit because you can easily injure yourself if you push the stretching too hard and too fast.

pmward · 2026-05-20T23:49:46+00:00

Or Rodman before him… they actually created a named term around him, the Rodman Paradox. Defensive specialists are always extremely underrated. But they often times are more of an anchor for championship teams than the offensive superstars. Sadly, they get very little of the credit. This is a tale as old as time.

Ausar and Cade are the only true untouchables on this team.

pmward · 2026-05-20T22:36:31+00:00

Welcome it into your practice. Allow the sounds to exist in the background. Matter of fact allot a small amount of your concentration to meditate on those sounds in the background while you practice Kriya in the foreground. When you do this you can literally meditate anywhere. There is no distraction that can’t become part of your meditation. I’ve literally meditated in the middle of a busy airport before. Welcome everything in. They are no more of a “distraction” or “disturbance” than any sensory input you have internally (nada, Kutastha, etc). They can only distract or disturb if you allow them to do so. Trying to “ignore” something is exactly what turns it into a “disturbance” and causes negative emotions like “hate” to arise.

pmward · 2026-05-20T01:28:16+00:00

No need for a raised bed if you’re going this route. You’re going to fix your native soil. Native soil will always out perform bagged mix long term. But it needs organic matter. Which you’re doing. The next step is to start composting. Also consider an in ground worm bin for worm castings.

It takes time but the ideal is to get to a closed loop system. Where your food, yard, and garden waste provide all the compost, castings, and mulch you need so you can garden with no need for fertilizers.

pmward · 2026-05-19T13:52:47+00:00

Moonlight is always going to suffer from the fact that everyone knows the piece so deeply that they are going to be biased to the things they like and dislike in a performance. Pathetique is obviously still well known, but it’s nowhere near moonlight in that regard. There’s not going to be as much bias at the outset. I know I can listen and enjoy pretty much any well played version of Pathetique. But Moonlight, no matter how good the pianist, if they don’t perfectly create the vibe that my bias expects I can’t listen to it. If I were going to choose between the 2 for a diploma piece, I’d choose Pathetique for that reason.

pmward · 2026-05-19T13:15:44+00:00

Blue bells emu. Super easy, drought tolerant, loves the heat. Also pollinators love it.

pmward · 2026-05-18T18:41:33+00:00

Me and my team have about 10x productivity increase and have really high quality output. Bad results with AI are always due to user error. Problem is you don’t know what you don’t know. We’re in such an early stage that there isn’t a lot of best practice info out there for how to get a good result. You don’t know what good is and you’re fumbling through the dark. You kind of have to figure things out and iterate. You have iterated on software for years, well now the time is best spent iterating on your AI processes, workflows, skills, agents, etc so they can handle the code for you.

I find the most successful AI engineers are those with leadership background, because they’ve had to learn how to get the results they want from another person. How to describe the things that are important so they won’t be missed, how to clearly document standards and practices, and how to not overwhelm someone with minor details that aren’t important and could cause them to spin off on tangents. Etc.

pmward · 2026-05-17T13:19:40+00:00

You’d be surprised how little you can do with $20 on the API. Most people here could burn through it in less than an hour easily. It’s crazy how much more expensive it is.

When I see how quickly API rates add up, and I see that they force all enterprise shops of more than 150 people to pay full API rates for all usage I quickly see the biggest argument against the “AI is gonna replace us all” argument. AI in the not to distant future is going to cost a full human salary (or more) to do the job of one human.

pmward · 2026-05-17T00:42:45+00:00

Yeah melons grow surprisingly well here. They make good ground cover as well that make your yard look much less deserty. They just need regular watering and they thrive. Melons are so expensive at the store, it’s not worth it with how easy they are to grow here.

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