Six months after shipping a feature, a bug appears. You search through pull requests and commit messages to find why a decision was made. Scattered across old conversations, forgotten Slack threads, or locked in someone's head who's now on another team.

Spec-driven development promises to fix this by making your decisions explicit and searchable. But does it actually work? Especially as AI-assisted development becomes more common, having clear specs becomes even more critical. In this session, we'll explore what specs really are, how they differ from requirements documents you've written before, and most importantly, whether the investment pays off for your team. We'll dig into how spec-driven development works and what challenges teams face when trying to maintain specs over time. You'll leave with a clear framework for deciding if spec-driven development is worth adopting in your workflow.