Show HN: SpecDeck – Bring coding agent decisions back into the spec
Writing good specs is hard. You don’t know everything upfront and it’s impossible to write every little detail in the spec. Much of my job as a developer has been to treat specs as intent, and fill out the blanks in the code and use the code reviews as a way to question those decisions. But as coding agents have started to produce much more code, the decisions that actually affect the product are getting harder to find. So I created SpecDeck. It helps everyone on the team write specs and hand th
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2026-10-31 03:15:04.458Z
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Source account: Writing good specs is hard. You don’t know everything upfront and it’s impossible to write every little detail in the spec. Much of my job as a developer has been to treat specs as intent, and fill out the blanks in the code and use the code reviews as a way to question those decisions. But as coding agents have started to produce much more code, the decisions that actually affect the product are getting harder to find. So I created SpecDeck. It helps everyone on the team write specs and hand th
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