The Limits of Spec-Driven Development
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For certain problems such as API integrations with strict contracts, regulated industries with compliance requirements, SDD works well.
But for exploratory development like most of the cases? SDD breaks down fast.
Turn that exploratory work to product would be the challenges. It is hard to balance the two