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Spec Balance Key for Agentic Development
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Agentic development shifts the spec trade-off: zero spec causes costly correction loops, while full formal specs are expensive upfront. The minimum total cost sits in the middle, with executable checks and enough structure. Overspecification causes context rot and instruction drift, so specs should shrink as code and tests mature.
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