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A totally unscientific comparison of building an RTS twice with Spec Kit
I wanted to get a bit more hands on with Spec Kit, what better way than building a Command & Conquer inspired game? Doing it twice of course!
What does AI Native actually mean?
"AI Native" is the phrase of the moment, and nobody agrees what it means. My definition comes down to one uncomfortable question: could your team delete its codebase and rebuild the software inside a week?
The Samsung DTS trap: a month-long quest for surround sound
My Samsung TV was silently downmixing every DTS soundtrack to stereo, and no setting could fix it. A month of troubleshooting, a pile of hardware, and the $250 box that finally restored surround sound.
Specs.md: agile ceremony, rebuilt for agents
I went into a spec-driven framework expecting waterfall in an agile costume. What I found mapped almost exactly onto Scrum ceremony — intents, work items, runs — with one of the people in the room swapped for an agent.
Disassembling slop
Slop isn't bad AI code. It's code that is cheap to produce and expensive to verify, a trade LLMs knocked out of balance. Name the imbalance and you can act on it, instead of just asking people to be more careful.
From vibe to spec
The methodologies fighting for attention such as vibe coding, spec-driven development, structured prompt-driven development, keep getting framed as rival camps. In fact, they're stages of one pipeline, and the real leverage is in the transition point between them.
Tested by accident
I accidentally deleted my website this weekend. The forced rebuild was the first real-pressure test of the standards-first experiment I wrote about a few days ago. The standards held — and revealed what is still unfinished.
Slop is a standards problem
AI slop is real. The diagnosis is wrong. Slop is what AI does when no one sets the standard — and the same technology can elevate the bar instead, if you choose to use it that way.
Evolving Agile in the age of AI agents
The agile practices that survived AI-assisted development weren't the process ones — they were the philosophical ones. A look at what changed and what stayed when building a real product with AI agents.
The incomplete history of Design Tokens
A thirty-year story about a single idea: that design decisions should be named, shared, and separated from the things they style — from Håkon Wium Lie's 1994 proposal to the W3C specification.