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What Is Specification Debt and Why Does AI Code Miss What You Actually Need?
Claude Code Conversations with Claudine
Claude Code Conversations with Claudine
What Is Specification Debt and Why Does AI Code Miss What You Actually Need?
Jul 25, 2026
Technical debt used to come from shortcuts in implementation. With AI, the debt moves upstream: the code is clean, tested, and idiomatic, but it solves a slightly wrong problem because the specification in your prompt was incomplete. This episode names that failure mode, specification debt, and shows why it compounds faster than ordinary technical debt and is much harder to see in review.
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