The article analyzes why AI agents lose progress across discrete context windows, identifies two failure patterns, and presents a dual‑harness solution—an initialization agent and a coding agent—that uses init scripts, progress files, and Git to enable incremental, test‑driven development over hours or days.
This tutorial walks through adding a priority field to an existing todo‑API using OpenSpec’s incremental workflow—proposing the change with /opsx:propose, reviewing the generated Delta Specs, applying the code with /opsx:apply, and archiving the change with /opsx:archive—while illustrating ADDED and MODIFIED specifications, code updates, testing, and best‑practice tips.
The article explains why a progressive, incremental approach to business architecture—balancing clear primary requirements with flexible handling of secondary and emergent features—helps large‑scale website projects avoid the pitfalls of rigid waterfall planning and enables smoother versioned development.
This article presents Uber engineering leader Raffi Krikorian’s twelve practical rules for planning, executing, and validating architecture refactoring, covering purpose definition, incremental delivery, data handling, technical debt, technology choices, pressure management, business alignment, non‑technical factors, code quality, and team readiness.
