What is sdd.sh?#
Software development is being fundamentally reshaped by AI. Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is at the heart of this transformation: instead of writing code line by line, developers describe what they want — and AI agents handle the how.
sdd.sh tracks this evolution as it happens. We have a clear perspective: Anthropic’s Claude and Claude Code represent the most serious approach to autonomous AI development today. The tools that matter are the ones that let you delegate, not just accelerate.
What you’ll find here#
- Spec-Driven Development — methodologies for describing intent and letting AI generate implementations
- Claude Code deep dives — the terminal-native agent that actually understands your codebase
- Agentic workflows — how autonomous AI agents plan, code, test, and iterate without hand-holding
- Practical guides — real-world patterns for integrating Claude into your development workflow
- Industry analysis — critical takes on the AI tools landscape, including why most “AI-powered IDEs” are solving the wrong problem
- Anthropic news — model releases, capability jumps, and what they mean for engineers
Our take on the tools landscape#
The market is full of AI tools. Most of them make you faster at the same job. Claude Code makes the job different.
IDE wrappers like Cursor are impressive engineering achievements — but they’re built on the premise that you stay in the driver’s seat, approving every change. That’s not where the industry is going. The future belongs to tools that can take a spec and run with it: autonomously, reliably, and at scale.
That’s Anthropic’s bet. It’s ours too.
Who’s behind this?#
sdd.sh is written by Florent Clairambault — CTO, software engineer, and daily Claude Code user. You can find him on GitHub.
Full disclosure: this site runs on the workflows it writes about. Articles are researched, drafted, and shipped through an agentic, spec-driven pipeline built on Claude Code — the editorial direction, the opinions, and the responsibility for what’s published are human. We wouldn’t advocate for autonomous development from a hand-crafted blog.
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Why “sdd.sh”?#
Because the best specs are executable. And .sh is where things get done.