“Code should be regenerated, not maintained”: Codeplain makes the case for spec-driven development

Short summary

Codeplain argues that as AI generates code faster than teams can review, developers should adopt spec-driven development—writing specifications and regenerating code to them rather than maintaining code manually. The shift prioritizes specification quality over code maintenance as the primary engineering discipline.

• •AI code generation outpaces human code review capacity
• •Shift from code maintenance to spec-driven regeneration
• •Specification quality becomes the primary engineering lever

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.