AI coding assistants are great at completing small tasks or features. However, what do you do when you are working with more complex code bases, and you need to build in-depth features that need upfront planning? This talk explores spec-driven development as a solution to this problem. I'll show you how modern AI coding assistants (like Kiro) can help break down complex tasks into three distinct phases. We'll look at the real-world tradeoffs of this approach, and most importantly and how you can use it in your own projects right away. Speakers: - Erik Hanchett (Amazon Web Services): Erik Hanchett is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS who teaches developers how to build with modern web, AI, and the cloud. X/Twitter: https://x.com/erikch LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikhanchett/ GitHub: https://github.com/erikch