Specification driven development is just another way of saying we love writing code twice. Once for the spec and once to make it actually work. It’s hilarious how much time people burn just to document their own indecision.

When I was getting into coding, I first started to just scamble together some PHP stuff because I had no mentor. Later, I learned to at least write a short document describing what you want to achieve: Set goals, estimate usages (of libraries, dependencies, technologies) and annotate a few "I could ...