Over 20 years of professional development, starting in the late 90's using PERL, and then switching my main focus to PHP in 2003. CEO of [DiegoDev Group][ws_diegodev] and PHP Architect. Podcaster on PHPUgly and php[podcast].
- One-pager → PRD → TRD used to take weeks. Spec-driven dev collapses it
- "Code is just another language" — and LLMs are translation engines
- Your spec is the persistent memory that survives a closed context window
- Throwing an LLM at your codebase without a spec is like skipping onboarding for a new hire
- "Twice as much code, but not twice as much work anymore"





