A Spec Is Not a Plan
Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.
Research, Plan, Implement, Verify is just the ordinary shape of software work, finally said out loud — and the spec/plan mix-up inside it is costing teams more than they realize.
An agent can change forty files in ninety seconds and describe it in one confident sentence. That sentence is a claim, not a record — the diff is the only account of the work that nobody wrote.
Hunt and Thomas defined DRY as knowledge — not code. AI generates duplicated knowledge at industrial scale. The discipline hasn't changed; the surface area has.