Claude Code: Spec-Driven Development — Why Your AI Coding Sessions Fall Apart at Hour Three (opens in new tab)

Last Updated on May 26, 2026 by Editorial Team Author(s): Rick Hightower Originally published on Towards AI. Part 4: Stop coding blind: the spec-driven workflow built-in that turns Claude Code from a function writer into a feature builder. Summary: In this article, working engineers love Claude Code for writing functions and quietly resent it for building features. The fix is not a plugin or a hand-rolled TODO.md. It is spec-driven development with Claude Code, built from four native layers: ...