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…