Discovery
A blog exploring ideas about requirements, testing, and building better software—from the team at dot•requirements and Popover.
The Perils of Bugmaxxing
Agentic code review will happily find you hundreds of verified bugs before lunch. Whether any user cares is the question it won't answer — and answering it is the actual bottleneck.Read More →
Be Agile, Write Specs
Everyone's arguing about whether spec-driven development is just waterfall in disguise. But the line between agile and waterfall is batch size and collaboration — and AI doesn't move it. Write all the specs you want; just keep the batches small.Read More →
CR/EATED: Lightweight Prioritization for AI-Driven Development Teams
The traditional rigorous answer to "what should we build next?" is value over effort. On an AI-first team, effort isn't the constraint anymore — so what goes in the denominator?Read More →
The Hard Part of Spec-Driven Development
Everyone's talking about writing specs for AI. Not enough people are talking about what happens to those specs in six months.Read More →
Why Batch Size Matters More Than Velocity
A lot of AI-coding discourse is about how fast you can go. But the real lever isn't velocity — it's how small each unit of work is. Decomposition, not acceleration, is what makes AI-assisted development actually work.Read More →
Cognitive Debt: When You Build Faster Than You Understand
AI-assisted development lets small teams build at enterprise scale — but they hit enterprise problems before they have enterprise resources. Here's what we're doing about it.Read More →