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AI-generated code does not get a testing exemption. A walk through what an end-to-end Playwright session caught on the salty.poker build, and why integration testing is the part the methodology cannot delegate away.
Spec-driven agentic development compresses the build phase. It does not eliminate the iteration loop. A debugging story from this week and what it says about the methodology.
I spent Tuesday morning staring at a 404 from a service I knew existed. The table engine was up. The routes were registered. The tests passed. And every single request from the front end came back wit…
There is a difference between asking AI to help you write a function and asking it to build your company. GitHub Copilot suggests an autocomplete as you type. That is promptresponse AI — you ask, it a…
I applied to 47 jobs last week. I also built a Chrome extension. One of those activities was interesting. The application process for most jobs is a ritual everyone has accepted without questioning: u…
How I built a style-guide skill to keep my writing voice consistent across blog posts when working with Claude.
Yesterday I took a screen scraper project and gave it a proper home on Azure. Containerized, monitored, secrets managed correctly, analytics wired up, alerts configured. The kind of infrastructure wor…
Last post I talked about finding out that [what I've been doing has a name](https://thesaltykorean.com/building/ai/development/2026/03/03/specdrivendevelopment.html). Specdriven development. Heeki Par…
Specdriven development. Who knew that was a thing? I did, apparently — I just didn't know what to call it. Turns out I've been doing it this whole time, building a whole methodology around it, and all…
Here we go. Again. I've been in technology for nearly 30 years. I've built ETL products from scratch and sold them to clients like Kimberly Clark, CocaCola, and Johnson & Johnson. I've managed $12M cl…