Spec-Driven Development is reshaping how teams approach website redesigns in the age of AI coding tools. The core argument: AI accelerates development but also accelerates misalignment, making upfront discovery and structured specification more critical than ever. Using GitHub's Spec Kit as an example, the post walks through a workflow — constitution, specify, clarify, plan, tasks, implement — that is especially valuable for legacy codebases (10–20 year old Rails apps) where undocumented behaviors and architectural debt are common. The discovery workshop becomes the most strategically important meeting, producing a written spec that AI agents can act on correctly. The human role shifts from writing code to steering intent and evaluating outputs.
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