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Alessio Soldano
IBM

Open-source software engineer with over 15yrs of experience in the field and people manager of a worldwide distributed and diverse team of engineers. Contributor of RESTEasy and many other successful open-source projects (WildFly, Quarkus, Apache CXF, Apache WSS4J, Apache Santuario, ...)

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(Panel) Spec-Driven Development in the Age of Agents
Conference (INTERMEDIATE level)
Room B3

We are witnessing a fundamental shift in software engineering. As AI

agents become capable of generating entire features, the bottleneck is

no longer writing syntax—it is defining intent. This evolution brings

Spec-Driven Development (SDD) back into the spotlight, not as a

bureaucratic documentation step, but as the primary interface for

software creation.

In this panel, we explore the reality of building software when you're

pair programming with an LLM. We will discuss the architectural

implications of moving from imperative coding to declarative

specifications. How do we define unambiguous requirements for

non-deterministic agents? Does "prompt engineering" evolve into rigorous

system design? Join us to discover if the Spec is truly the new Source

of Truth, or just another layer of abstraction to maintain in a world

where code is becoming a commodity.

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