Specs are the bottleneck

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Wow, after 14 years of being a software developer I would have never guessed in a million years that writing, specs, and ideas would be the bottleneck for my expressivity and output.

But here I am, 5 agent loops running in perpetuity, spending 100% of my time finding the fastest…
— nader dabit (@dabit3) January 18, 2026

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Spec and the ability to get the ideas clearly out into the world is the new bottleneck. The agents can build it (unless you can’t describe it to them) → can I get agents to understand the problem