AI-powered coding agents and agentic development workflows
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In 2025, a wave of tools like GitHub Spec Kit and Amazon Kiro reinvigorated the term Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a counterpart to Vibe Coding. They use markdown specifications and plans to steer coding agents - but is SDD the right term for this approach?
I recently joined Johannes Rabauer on his live stream to present Guided Coding — an approach I developed for writing enterprise-grade software with coding agents while maintaining full control over the source code. In this post, I want to summarize the most important points from that session. For the full details, check out the Guided Coding documentation.