Same Prompt, Four AI Spec Tools: Planning Steps Differ by 6x

A developer ran the same one-page weekly planner spec through four AI planning tools using Claude Code + Opus 5, finding plans ranged from 8 to 54 steps — a sixfold gap from idea to implementation.

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