When I'm building something new there's a good chance I don't know about a lot of problems (unknown unknowns). How do you overcome this with just spec files?
I keep coming back to this and the only way to develop properly without tons of hacks patching bugs afterwards is by working at a low level. I don't really write code but I work at the code level still and have Claude write each function and whatnot.
For personal projects, I've rewritten bounded integration parts for things all the time, and so far it's been fine. Coding agents are RL'd to get the thing done, they'd rather get to 95%, not realize there's some fundamental architectural flaw, and hack the last 5%, rather than taking that lesson and redesigning. That's your job.
For business settings, yeah I dunno, a ton of rewriting all the time is not seen as a good look.
I wouldn't say this at all. They mess up regularly. What makes them able to write syntax that compiles is their harness which verifies the syntax and provides the feedback loop for them. But LLMs will happily give you code that doesn't compile.
This is happening at my company: all of these software phases are being delegated to AI. And the people without any understanding of software have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Features no one needs are being made in minutes. It hasn't been long enough to really tell how that's turning out. Everything seems to be in endless development.
When I'm building something new there's a good chance I don't know about a lot of problems (unknown unknowns). How do you overcome this with just spec files?
I keep coming back to this and the only way to develop properly without tons of hacks patching bugs afterwards is by working at a low level. I don't really write code but I work at the code level still and have Claude write each function and whatnot.