GitHub's Spec Kit builds "the engineer who asks annoying questions" for AI agents
techNmak · x · 2026-09-07
The post opens with a team-culture observation: the engineer who refuses to let anyone start coding too quickly — asking what exactly we're building, who it's for, what happens when it fails, what "done" means — seems to slow everyone down for an hour, but saves massive rework three days later when requirements diverge.
GitHub essentially built that engineer for AI coding agents: Spec Kit forces agents to generate and clarify a spec before sprinting into implementation, instead of throwing a raw prompt at them.
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