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Spec-driven development keeps evolving. OpenSpec is still moving quickly, including its newer artifact-guided workflow. We’ve got an OpenSpec Deep Dive and a full Product Engineer role covering specification workflows to help you get started, plus a quick look at How Spec Driven Development Frameworks Work. We’re also showing you how to Turn a Prompt Into a Spec.

Elsewhere, cheaper models are getting seriously capable. Haiku 5.5 raises an interesting question: when do you actually need the biggest model? We explore that in When Should You Use a Cheaper AI Model?. And in Agent Memory vs Context Files, we look at whether agents actually need persistent memory, or whether giving them the right context is enough.

And as coding agents get more autonomy, what we let them access matters more too. Making Coding Agents Safe to Run covers the different ways we can protect ourselves, while How Much Access Should Your Agent Have? goes deeper into permissions, isolation and giving agents enough freedom to work without handing them the keys to everything.