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Understanding where Spec Kit is most useful

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Understanding where Spec Kit is most useful

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- Well, this process is really involved and can take quite a bit of time because the AI is now building out the core structure for your project. And as I experimented with the system, I've quickly realized that the more complex the instructions you give to the project are, the more likely the system is to go on a long walk in the forest and pick up a lot of random things to bring back. And as a result, you don't necessarily get the solution you need. Instead, you get a very complex built out system that doesn't work, which is frustrating but also indicative of what is happening here. So the process we are letting the system run here is writing out an advanced spec and then following the instructions of that spec. And as a result, we're no longer giving the AI a simple task like build a website that does this. Instead, we're saying follow this set of instructions to build a very specific website or web app to do these very specific things. And in that process, it is far more likely…

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