https://chuckha.github.io/tags/spec-driven-development/Recent content in Spec-Driven-Development on A Professional GluerHugoen-usWed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chuckha.github.io/posts/2026-04-four-orchestrators-in-a-month/Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://chuckha.github.io/posts/2026-04-four-orchestrators-in-a-month/<p>I built four AI orchestrators in a month. Claude Code is already good enough to obsolete every one of them.</p> <p>BTT, FSD, ASL, and finally spec/aspect-driven development. Each one had less scaffolding than the last, until the scaffolding was gone. Not because I got clever. Because the agent underneath stopped needing a harness.</p> <h2 id="why-build-orchestrators-at-all">Why build orchestrators at all</h2> <p>There&rsquo;s a claim going around that a $500k/year engineer should be burning $250k/year in tokens. I don&rsquo;t know if the exact number is right, but the shape of it is. If AI can do most of the typing, you should be using a lot of it. At the time I started, Claude Code on its own couldn&rsquo;t spend that — one loop, one agent, one task at a time. If I wanted to spend seriously on tokens, I needed orchestration.</p>