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Spec-Driven Development: The Fast Track to 10x? - Jerry Nixon - NDC Sydney 2026

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Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is the brave new world in AI coding we all knew was inevitable.

More like a revolution than an evolution of software delivery, SDD produces solutions as artifacts of a structured specification. This specification is the contract for code behavior and the single source of truth guiding developers, tools, and AI agents to generate, test, and validate results. It is software engineering through prompt precision.

20 Comments

@maesse 3 days ago

Lots of little gold nuggets in this one!

@Diegoj.22 3 months ago

Amazing talk on LLMs internals

@SG97 4 months ago

I didn't even care Jerry didn't go deep into SDD. I just enjoy his talks.

@dev.anupsarkar 4 months ago

Great talk. Loved it

@tomthunderforest1681 4 months ago

Great talk!

@VerganteHeHe 4 months ago

I would not have minded if he rambled on for another hour to finish his talk, that was all very interesting

@Jeff.Wilson 4 months ago

Wow, nice to see that Lars Ulrich is speaking at the conferences between Metallica gigs.

@MaximilianSchafzahl 4 months ago

audio is not great, but the talk is awesome.

@kentchenery1813 4 months ago

Just watched this. Interesting talk.
For others: The sound was fine for me unlike several comments (I guess its fixed)

@kenzhang6104 3 months ago

This guy is hilarious love it

@jcagefactor 3 months ago

Jerry congrats, I listened this and took notes in one breath. Also dig further to know more, really valuable content in order to get more familiar of how do these models work. Finally I understand why my buddy that works in AI Engineerints is telling me that "there is no intelligence at all, just pure math"

@alessandrocurcu1740 4 months ago

wow! The title is really misleading! This is one of the best talks that I've listened to; very informative

@valcron-1000 4 months ago

Refreshing take, expected it to be an absolutely delusional take. Unfortunately the audio is not great

@Mik1604 7 days ago

John Gruber invented markdown.

@petervogt8309 3 months ago

55 min in and still not on SDD. Just llms 101. Boring.

@JerryNixon 4 months ago

May I suggest? https://youtu.be/WRg13Ze_UpY

@AntonArhipov 1 month ago

It should be a different title. Not much about SDD is there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good talk nevertheless.

@gregbar6583 4 months ago

Sound is broken?

@PravinDahal 5 days ago

Very few people working for other companies are such shills. Like you can’t think of other programming languages than C# or someone in the org will use it to not promote you if you name one? It’s really cringe.