Considering Spec Driven Development

People are making a big deal about the new way of agentic working: Spec-Driven!!! But, wait... Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is something we tried for many years, in many companies, many times. It was proven to be a losing proposition and a bad idea. We did it in the 80s, and by 96 or so we had alternatives. If the idea of spec-driven is to fully detail a system up-front, and then use agents to…