PyOhio 2026
AI coding assistants promise to make you faster. What they don't tell you is that without a disciplined workflow, they'll also make your codebase harder to reason about, your git history a mess, and your context windows a graveyard of half-finished ideas.
Spec-driven development is a structured, repeatable process for shipping real software with AI – without surrendering control of your codebase. In this talk, you'll learn how to turn your ideas into a parent specification, break that into focused child specs, assign them to agentic coding agents, and own every line of code that lands in git.
Using these techniques as a solo developer, I built a production web application (FastAPI + Vue) in about 4 months. Whether you work alone or on a team, you'll leave with a concrete workflow you can start using on your next project – not a philosophy, not a vibe.
