Welcome to the Context-Driven Development Party

[waleedkadous]

I just wrote an article.

When Google, Amazon, GitHub, and independent developers all converge on the same approach independently, it's a signal worth paying attention to.

I wrote about the emerging consensus that ephemeral chat is a terrible way to build software with AI — and how tools like Conductor, Kiro, Spec Kit, and Codev all arrived at the same fix: treat context as a managed artifact.

Read the full article: https://waleedk.medium.com/welcome-to-the-context-driven-development-party-8a0fb58d3f20

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Key takeaways:

• Context beats chat — markdown files persist, version, and compound
• Structure enables scale — with clear context, you can parallelize
• Brownfield is the real test — existing codebases are where these approaches prove their value

The party is just getting started. 🎉