Ask HN: Are you using Spec Driven Development?
2 by xpn | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Developers working with LLMs in a professional environment, is Spec Driven Development really the way forward with LLM coding agents? Over the past few months I've really tried to lean into SDD, after trying SpecKit and GSD, I finally settled on OpenSpec as my preferred spec generator. However I'm not quite ready to give up on understanding the actual code that the LLM is producing. To help with maintaining my comprehension of the generated code, I've tried a few different methods, such as generating smaller specs for more granular features, and pausing after each major task block to review the code. Approaching this via "/ospx-apply Run until task 3.5 is complete and then pause for review" gives me the ability to vet the code being produced and make corrections if needed. But honestly, the major issue that I have is that coding style and good code hygiene is often lacking, even with appropriate AGENTS.md and Skills loaded (the usual issues of multiple helper methods, inconsistent naming). I can't help but wonder what developers are doing in their workplaces. Is SDD actually used as part of the developer toolkit? Am I trying to keep too much control over the code and should I just let the LLM be free within the bounds of a spec to guide it? Or should I abandon SDD and look at another path to ensure that code being produced can at least be maintained long term?
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5 by franze | 9 comments on Hacker News.
They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them.
5 by franze | 9 comments on Hacker News.
They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them.
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3 by thevpc | 0 comments on Hacker News.
My frustration with distributing java apps didnt show up recently. I remember having implemented my first network jar downloaded back in the 2000's because i needed applet like feature support with desktop full control. Years after, the problem is the very same. Webstart didnt really took off and the only mean i had in my projects was the ugly fatjars, including the (for me) uglier spring-boot repackaging that changes the application classloading behaviour and hence giving me by time some headackes i was not prepared for. So basically nuts started as a response to this frustration 9 years ago, but from now i think its mature enough (used in production) to be shared, and forecebly i am more keen to need suggestions and help from fellow contributors.
3 by thevpc | 0 comments on Hacker News.
My frustration with distributing java apps didnt show up recently. I remember having implemented my first network jar downloaded back in the 2000's because i needed applet like feature support with desktop full control. Years after, the problem is the very same. Webstart didnt really took off and the only mean i had in my projects was the ugly fatjars, including the (for me) uglier spring-boot repackaging that changes the application classloading behaviour and hence giving me by time some headackes i was not prepared for. So basically nuts started as a response to this frustration 9 years ago, but from now i think its mature enough (used in production) to be shared, and forecebly i am more keen to need suggestions and help from fellow contributors.
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2 by gmccreight2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sometimes I wonder if my life would be better if I'd never bumped into Andy Matuschak's ideas. But I did, and basically got one-shotted by his concept of "evergreen notes", which are notes that are similar to well-factored code. They're small, conceptual, and densely-linked. They're also really hard to share with people, because those links form a complex graph that goes all over the place. You could share individual notes, but since the notes are small and have a lot of links there's not a lot of utility in sharing single notes. You could share all of them, but who in their right mind would want to share _all_ their notes. I found myself wanting to share little groups of notes with different sets of people reasonably often. None of the existing publishing tools I encountered supported automatic curation where it would suggest a candidate graph that I could then modify. Also, none were geared towards publishing lots of little sites. I've spent about a year part-time developing the project so far, and in that time I've probably published about 50 sites. Each time I learned something and improved the tooling. I like it pretty well now, so I'm sharing. It's open source, but also has a "we host for you" option. You can publish 3 sites to the meadow-notes.com site for free, so you can try it out. I'd love to know what you think.
2 by gmccreight2 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Sometimes I wonder if my life would be better if I'd never bumped into Andy Matuschak's ideas. But I did, and basically got one-shotted by his concept of "evergreen notes", which are notes that are similar to well-factored code. They're small, conceptual, and densely-linked. They're also really hard to share with people, because those links form a complex graph that goes all over the place. You could share individual notes, but since the notes are small and have a lot of links there's not a lot of utility in sharing single notes. You could share all of them, but who in their right mind would want to share _all_ their notes. I found myself wanting to share little groups of notes with different sets of people reasonably often. None of the existing publishing tools I encountered supported automatic curation where it would suggest a candidate graph that I could then modify. Also, none were geared towards publishing lots of little sites. I've spent about a year part-time developing the project so far, and in that time I've probably published about 50 sites. Each time I learned something and improved the tooling. I like it pretty well now, so I'm sharing. It's open source, but also has a "we host for you" option. You can publish 3 sites to the meadow-notes.com site for free, so you can try it out. I'd love to know what you think.