Specs Are the Deliverable

The bottleneck in AI-assisted engineering is not code review. It is spec review, and before that, spec definition. Not many people are doing this yet, or are not doing it well. A good spec is what turns an agent&rsquo;s output from a gamble into a coding outcome you can sign your name to. We have not noticed the bottleneck because the spec is usually invisible, sitting in someone&rsquo;s head or…