What is Spec-Driven Development?

About this episode

The episode discusses spec-driven development and its impact on coding practices with guest Jason Belk from Cisco.

Send us Fan Mail Your AI can write code fast, but it can also wander fast. That’s why we sat down with Jason Belk from Learning at Cisco to unpack spec-driven development, a simple idea with huge impact: write the rules and requirements first, then let your coding agent execute with far fewer surprises. We talk through what “agentic coding” looks like in practice with Claude Code, including the trust and permission model of a local AI agent that can create files, run bash commands, and itera...

People in this episode

Guest: Jason Belk

Topics covered

• spec-driven development
• AI coding
• agentic coding
• software development
• requirements gathering

Keywords

• spec-driven development
• AI
• coding agent
• requirements
• software engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cisco

Products: Claude Code

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