I Built a Framework to Keep Coding Agents Disciplined

Coding agents imitate a healthy codebase well but bring no judgment to an empty one — so I built a spec-driven framework to supply the discipline I won't. A postmortem, a pivot, a retrofit test, and whether you actually need any of it.

I have a bad habit. I get excited about an idea, and it’s half built before I stop to ask whether I’m building it right. Sometimes that works out. This is a post about a time it didn’t, and the process I built afterward so it would happen a little less often.

The idea, for the record, was a multiplayer Songsterr: a guitar tab that scrolls in lockstep with a shared transport, so five people in five different rooms can follow the same beat. It was also an excuse to finally try spec-driven development, which had been showing up everywhere, including at work where folks I respect...

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