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SpecSelf looks like a set of features: coherence checks, persona rotation, review cadences, an audit trail. Every one of them was implied by ten frontmatter fields decided on day one. A life-OS is not a feature list. It is a schema decis…
I built a method as a public repo and the product that runs it as two private ones, and none of them treated the others as a source of truth. The domain enum lived in four places. A persona drifted between its lens file and its API contr…
Dumping the whole corpus into an AI agent makes it worse, not better. The fix is architectural: each task loads a curated slice, not everything you have. Here is the method, and the same move at three different layers: specs, sensor data…
Spec-driven development reads like a methodology for controlling AI agents. It isn't. It's a methodology for managing context across stateless sessions. The spec is the persistent memory.
Why spec-driven development and structured folder architecture are the missing infrastructure for AI-assisted engineering: methodology, common mistakes, and where to start.