An LLM built the spec-driven harness his whole workflow now runs on

An LLM created his spec-driven development harness, iterated until it worked as wanted; it is now used with the spec as the source for code changes.

How it works

An LLM creates his spec-driven development harness
Iterates until it works as wanted
The spec is now the source for code changes

Why it’s worth knowing

The harness is the opinion, made executable.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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