Derick Rethans

Paraphrasing opening keynote speaker at ConFoo: "Should we go back to the waterfall method of writing massive specs upfront to feed to AI coding agents?"

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Feb 25 at 2:28pmWeb
Show threadLarry GarfieldFeb 25
@derickr Did the speaker say yes or no?
Show threadDerick RethansFeb 25
@Crell Not sure yet... It seems he means yes. But the talk is more of a product placement.
Show threadgrmpyprogrammerFeb 25
@derickr @Crell AWS is a huge sponsor so of course this will be “keynote as product placement” talk.
Show threadDerick RethansFeb 25
@grmpyprogrammer @Crell I know.
Show threadYannickFeb 25
@derickr that’s what I naturally started doing for that SaaS project of mine. At least for the MVP anyway – later iterations will follow a more standard workflow I reckon