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Developer builds AI spec-review tool after his own project spiraled into technical debt

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A software developer shared how his excitement-driven approach to building a multiplayer guitar tab app led to significant technical debt despite using GitHub's Spec Kit for spec-driven development. Over ten days, he generated sixteen feature specs that grew inconsistent, contradicted each other, and drifted from the actual codebase as features were added without a clear documentation standard. Problems included mismatched data contracts, an unresolved tempo-change conflict across four files, untestable success criteria, and a 927-line entry file that needed a full refactor. The developer concluded that Spec Kit functioned correctly, but the real failure was his own lack of upfront decision-making before generating artifacts. In response, he built a personal tooling layer to enforce discipline earlier in the process, before inconsistencies have a chance to accumulate.

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