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A sufficiently detailed spec is code

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

An analysis arguing that detailed specs are not a reliable substitute for code, using the Symphony SPEC as a case study. It argues that specification documents often read like code but still fail to produce reliable implementations, and that claims about agentic coding misrepresent the relationship between specification and implementation.

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