001 2026.05.11
May 11, 2026
The Spec Is the Work: PRD-First AI Development
The reason AI-assisted builds stall isn't the model: design decisions were never made. Here's why writing the spec first changes everything.
I lead developer advocacy at Global Payments, building developer experience infrastructure at enterprise scale. I apply the same approach to local business web presence: done-for-you builds and ongoing management for owners who don’t have time to figure it out themselves.
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001 2026.05.11
May 11, 2026
The reason AI-assisted builds stall isn't the model: design decisions were never made. Here's why writing the spec first changes everything.
002 2026.05.04
May 4, 2026
Most CLAUDE.md files decay because they're written as config and forgotten. Here's how to treat them as living artifacts that improve over time.
003 2026.04.27
April 27, 2026
AI coding tools don't fail on prompts. They fail on ambiguous artifacts. Here's what Agent Experience means in practice and why it starts with your spec, not your model.
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