OpenSpec tutorial series — Part 0: Why spec-first
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Most teams already write down what they are going to build. They open a ticket: "As a user I want a search box, so that I can find pets quickly." That sentence has served software teams for twenty years. At Conduction we write specs instead. The reason is simple: the developer reading the ticket is now an LLM, not a colleague, and an LLM needs a different kind of brief. This opener explains why, before the rest of the series gets into the how.