Developer-tools
5 articles
Spec Kit, BMAD and OpenSpec, and the Cost of Planning First
Three spec-driven-development tools compared for real, with what a controlled benchmark says about their cost and what their own review mechanisms reveal.
Our AI Agent Read the Rule and Took the Shortcut Anyway
An agent read a rule forbidding a shortcut, found the correct command, and took the shortcut anyway. The fix was not a clearer rule.
A Coding Agent Breaks Its Own Rules Before Its Context Fills
A full context window is not the only thing that breaks an AI agent. A separate, measurable failure shows up under pressure alone.
An AI Coding Harness, from Three Tmux Panes to Ten Agents
A tmux-based multi-agent harness worked, until it had to run headless. Here is the wall it hit, and the ten-persona pipeline that replaced it.
We Built a Harness Before It Had a Name
Four projects, four generations of evolution. The most effective AI-agent harness is the one you build from your own mistakes.