alt Hacker NewsI use openspec and love it. I’m doing 5-7x with close to 100% of code AI generated, and shipping to production multiple times a day. I work on a large sass app with hundreds of customers. Wrote something here:
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This is a great post, thanks for sharing! Over the last couple months I fell into my own unique (but similar) spec driven workflow and couldn’t help but start building my own tooling around it. Since you’ve clearly thought so much about this I would really value any feedback / criticism / reactions you have.
I find the added structure of yaml + requirement ids helps tremendously compared to plain markdown -
I am still a few days away from open sourcing the stack (CLI / API & Server), plan is to gather as much feedback as I can and decide if this is worth maintaining.
This is the second endorsement I've seen today. I gave OpenSpec a shot and was dismayed by the Explore prompt. [1] Over 1,000 words with verbose, repetitive instructions which will lead to context drift. The examples refer to specific tools like SQLite and OAuth. That won't help if your project isn't related to those.
I do like the basic concept and directory structure, but those are easy enough to adopt without all the cruft.
1. https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/src/core/te...