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Spec-Driven Development: The Methodology Behind the Magic

Spec-Driven Development: The Methodology Behind the Magic

Most developers I know have been here. They type a detailed prompt into their AI agent. The output looks right. They run it, tweak a detail, run it again – and somewhere around the third attempt, the whole thing has quietly shifted into something else. The problem is not the AI. The problem is the approach. Spec-driven development changes that. Before a single file gets created, you define intent. You build a shared understanding for your business stakeholders, your architect,…

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Stop Coding. Start Building from Specs.

Stop Coding. Start Building from Specs.

I haven’t written a line of code since January. Not because I couldn’t. I stopped because spec-driven development showed me I was spending time on the wrong part of the job. Today, it is easy to type “build me XYZ” and get code in seconds. I did that too. Sometimes the result looked great. Then I ran the same prompt again and got something different. Logic shifted. Edge cases disappeared. The output stopped being predictable. The turning point came when…

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Hey Code, Specify!

Hey Code, Specify!

I was deep into spec-driven development with GitHub’s Spec Kit. Writing detailed specifications. Describing what I wanted AI agents to build. And I was typing. A lot. My fingers became the bottleneck. Then I thought: why am I typing when I could be talking? I opened Copilot Chat and looked for a microphone. Nothing. Turns out there’s a small extension you need: “VS Code Speech for Copilot.” I installed it and the microphone appeared. But then I discovered something better. The…

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Vibe coding PCF Controls with GitHub Copilot

Vibe coding PCF Controls with GitHub Copilot

What if you could build a PCF control without writing most of the code yourself? I just tried vibe coding with GitHub Copilot – describing what I want and reviewing its solutions. My goal: A JSON viewer for Power Apps that works in both Canvas and Model-Driven Apps. Back in 2020, I built the PCF-MarkDown Viewer. Let me tell you, that was an adventure. Installing the Power Platform CLI, wrestling with XML manifest files, configuring TypeScript, debugging webpack builds. Hours…

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Goodbye Limits, Hello Microsoft Foundry

Goodbye Limits, Hello Microsoft Foundry

Recently I stumbled into an issue with my GitHub Copilot coding agent. Yes, correctly — I reached the premium request limit in my Visual Studio Code. And everybody knows, a throttling to an old LLM feels like driving an old timer. I’d been deep in spec-driven development using GitHub’s Spec Kit. This toolkit lets AI agents generate implementations from specifications. It helps you build high-quality software faster. Powerful. Efficient. Game-changing. But when you hit that limit? Everything changes. GitHub Copilot throttles…

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