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by gnat5 hours ago |
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upvoteby gnat5 hours ago|
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Forgot to add: I get several benefits from doing this.

1. Specifications that live outside the code. We have a lot of code for which "what should this do?" is a subjective answer, because "what was this written to do?" is either oral legend or lost in time. As future Claude sessions add new features, this is how Claude can remember what was intentional in the existing code and what were accidents of implementation. And they're useful for documenters, support, etc.

2. Specifications that stay up to date as code is written. No spec survives first contact with the enemy (implementation in the real world). "Huh, there are TWO statuses for Missing orders, but we wrote this assuming just one. How do we display them? Which are we setting or is it configurable?" etc. Implementer finds things the specifier got wrong about reality, things the specifier missed that need to be specified/decided, and testing finds what they both missed.

I have a colleague working on saving architecture decisions, and his description of it feels like a higher-abstraction version of my saving and maintaining requirements.

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upvoteby try-working2 hours ago|
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Specifications doesn't tell you what to do, they say what the end state should be. In between that you need a codebase analysis step and an implementation plan.

My recursive-mode workflow handles all of that and more and gives you full traceability: https://recursive-mode.dev/introduction

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upvoteby energy1235 hours ago|
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I do (1) the same but (2) differently. In my workflow, (2) are AI generated specs using human written (1) as the input. It's an intermediate stage between (1) and the codebase, allowing for a gradual token expansion from 30k to 250k to the final code which is 2-3M. The benefit I've found with this approach is it gives the AI a way to iterate on the details of whole system in one context window, whereas fitting the whole codebase into one prompt is impossible. The code is then nothing more than a style transfer from (2).
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upvoteby hansmayer4 hours ago|
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Let's cut through the noise - what did you build with this very elaborate process and how much ARR is it generating ?
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upvoteby rrgok3 hours ago|
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Asking the real questions. I would also really like know how much value AIs are bringing in terms of ARR or MRR.
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