AI makes it too easy to build every feature — a spec keeps shipping disciplined
audrow · x · 2026-10-18
Developer Audrow shares a workflow lesson for the AI era: AI makes implementing any feature idea so easy that it's tempting to ship everything you can think of. He's found that writing a spec first is what keeps him disciplined about what actually ships.
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