<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>SpecDD Articles</title><link>https://specdd.ai/</link><description>Recent articles about SpecDD, specification-driven development, AI coding agents, and implementation context.</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><atom:link href="https://specdd.ai/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>SpecDD for DevOps: Using Specs to Build Better Ansible Roles and Playbooks</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-devops-ansible-roles-and-playbooks/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-devops-ansible-roles-and-playbooks/</guid><description>A practical guide to using SpecDD with Ansible roles and playbooks, showing how local specs steer AI-assisted infrastructure automation, idempotency, review quality, and DevOps productivity.</description></item><item><title>SpecDD as the Interface Between Product and Development Teams</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-as-the-interface-between-product-and-development-teams/</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-as-the-interface-between-product-and-development-teams/</guid><description>How SpecDD gives product owners, QA, and development teams a shared structured language for turning loose requirements into implementation-ready contracts.</description></item><item><title>Scaling AI-Assisted Development Needs A Spec Layer</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/scaling-ai-driven-development-needs-a-spec-layer/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/scaling-ai-driven-development-needs-a-spec-layer/</guid><description>Why scaling AI-assisted software development beyond prototypes requires durable local context, explicit boundaries, and reviewable intent that agents and humans can share.</description></item><item><title>Hacking SpecDD: Iterative Development Using Specs as Planning Checkpoints</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/hacking-specdd-iterative-development-using-specs-as-planning-checkpoints/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/hacking-specdd-iterative-development-using-specs-as-planning-checkpoints/</guid><description>A practical guide to using SpecDD specs as iterative planning checkpoints, so AI agents can expose ambiguities, contradictions, and bad assumptions before implementation runs too far.</description></item><item><title>Hacking SpecDD: Generating Specs from Prompts, for Fun and Profit</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/hacking-specdd-generating-specs-from-prompts-for-fun-and-profit/</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/hacking-specdd-generating-specs-from-prompts-for-fun-and-profit/</guid><description>A practical guide to using AI agents to generate SpecDD specs from rough prompts, then reviewing and tightening those specs before implementation.</description></item><item><title>Is SpecDD Too Verbose? Only If You Measure It Against Toy Code</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/is-specdd-too-verbose-only-if-you-measure-it-against-toy-code/</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/is-specdd-too-verbose-only-if-you-measure-it-against-toy-code/</guid><description>A practical answer to the objection that SpecDD adds too much text, explaining why the spec-to-code ratio looks worse in tiny examples and drops sharply in real systems.</description></item><item><title>SpecDD for Non-Technical Users: Can You Vibe-Spec? Yes</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-non-technical-users/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-non-technical-users/</guid><description>A plain-language introduction to SpecDD for product managers, founders, QA, support, operations, and other non-technical contributors who want to describe software behavior clearly before implementation.</description></item><item><title>SpecDD for Developers</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-developers/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-developers/</guid><description>A developer-focused introduction to SpecDD, showing how local .sdd files make AI-assisted implementation easier to scope, review, test, and keep aligned with real project constraints.</description></item><item><title>SpecDD for CTOs</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-ctos/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/specdd-for-ctos/</guid><description>A CTO-focused introduction to SpecDD, explaining how local specifications help engineering teams adopt AI coding agents without losing architectural control, domain knowledge, or review quality.</description></item><item><title>I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building - and Between the Two of Us, We Couldn't Spec-ify a Thing</title><link>https://specdd.ai/articles/i-built-specdd-because-ai-kept-forgetting-what-we-were-building/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://specdd.ai/articles/i-built-specdd-because-ai-kept-forgetting-what-we-were-building/</guid><description>Discover how SpecDD was born from years of frustration with AI agents that forget, violate boundaries, and lose context. Learn why specification-driven development is the missing layer between intent and reliable implementation in AI-assisted software projects.</description></item></channel></rss>