The New Bottleneck Isn't Writing Code, It's Specifying It

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:09:00 +0000

I’ve noticed I spend less time reviewing the code my AI agent writes and more time writing down what “correct” even means before I let it start. That’s a strange sentence to type as someone who spent fifteen years priding himself on writing clean code by hand. But the actual bottleneck in my day has moved somewhere upstream, and I don’t think I built the muscle for where it moved to.

Specification-Driven-Development on BRYSGO

The New Bottleneck Isn't Writing Code, It's Specifying It