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1. sheepscreek · 1789606644 · focus · HN ↗

   Haven’t we moved on from these things? Most recent LLMs have been trained on enough long context tasks to have become pretty good at planning. Perhaps with contributions from the harness. In either case, I wouldn’t bother if I were using Codex or Claude Code.

   1. crossroadsguy · 1789614293 · focus · HN ↗

      I mostly use speckit, not openspec. I think basically these are the same tools. There are other reasons for using such tools, but one reason is to enforce discipline for me and the LLM. Otherwise, often it starts going round in circles. Helps me save tokens as well. Again, the discipline is the important bit (along with clearly produced artefacts). Can I do all of this just with the LLM? Yes and that's what I did but it was very messy.

      1. postpriorx · 1789636576 · focus · HN ↗

         For teams its very helpful too, as you entire team standardizes around a common set of artifact for planning and executing work (with explicit semantics). Avoids snowflake agent sessions and artifacts for planning, proposing and executing work.

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