{"podcast":{"title":"Thoughtworks Technology Podcast","slug":"thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653","podcast_index_feed_id":1060653,"rss_url":"https://thoughtworks.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.thoughtworks.com/podcasts","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/1/7/1/a171dd11ef408014e55e3c100dce7605/TWTP_icon_2021.jpg","author":"Thoughtworks","episode_count":100,"summary":"The Thoughtworks podcast plunges deep into the latest tech topics that have captured our imagination. Join our panel of senior technologists to explore the most important trends in tech today, get frontline insights into our work developing cutting-edge tech and hear more about how today's tech megatrends will impact you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:17:02.892641+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653"},"episode":{"title":"What is spec-driven development?","slug":"what-is-spec-driven-development","published_at":"2026-05-28T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653/what-is-spec-driven-development","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653","url":"https://thoughtworks.libsyn.com/what-is-spec-driven-development","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thoughtworks/SDD_v1_mixdown.mp3?dest-id=790869","summary":"Semantic diffusion, combined with the pace of technology change, makes talking about AI-adjacent practices and techniques incredibly diffficult. There are few better examples of this issue than the term 'spec-driven development'. Although it's not new — its coinage precedes our current AI moment — it has become ubiquitous over the last six months or so as software professionals attempt to develop a vocabulary for talking about how they're developing methods for working successfully with coding agents. On this episode of the Technology Podcast, Birgitta Böckeler is joined by Laura Tacho — Developer Experience at AWS — to discuss all things spec-driven development. From competing definitions to different interpretations, implementations and workflows, the discussion provides a frank and grounded look at one of the most discussed and debated terms in modern software engineering. Learn more about Laura's work by visiting her website: https://lauratacho.com/ Read Birgitta's article on spec-driven development on Martin Fowler's website: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/sdd-3-tools.html Learn more about The Future of Software Development Retreat discussed on this episode and explore some of the key insights: https://www.thoughtworks.com/about-us/events/the-future-of-software-development","meta_description":"Semantic diffusion, combined with the pace of technology change, makes talking about AI-adjacent practices and techniques incredibly diffficult. There are…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2739,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653/episodes/what-is-spec-driven-development/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/thoughtworks-technology-podcast-1060653/what-is-spec-driven-development.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}