--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows - Erik Hanchett, AWS' description: >- 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 --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/IddXPepIAS4-using-spec-driven-development-for-production-workflows Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T09:07:16.843Z' language: null children: [] videoId: IddXPepIAS4 durationSeconds: 1067 publishedAt: '2026-06-28T17:30:24.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 10 endSeconds: 147 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=10' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 10 endSeconds: 147 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=10' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 10 endSeconds: 147 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=10' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 157 endSeconds: 246 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=157' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 258 endSeconds: 338 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=258' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 258 endSeconds: 338 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=258' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 338 endSeconds: 350 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=338' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 350 endSeconds: 481 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=350' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 494 endSeconds: 614 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=494' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 494 endSeconds: 614 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=494' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 494 endSeconds: 614 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=494' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 624 endSeconds: 712 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=624' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 624 endSeconds: 712 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=624' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 723 endSeconds: 803 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=723' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 723 endSeconds: 803 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=723' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 723 endSeconds: 803 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=723' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 814 endSeconds: 939 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=814' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 951 endSeconds: 1067 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4?t=951' heldReason: rights --- # Using Spec-Driven Development for Production Workflows - Erik Hanchett, AWS 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 --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/IddXPepIAS4-using-spec-driven-development-for-production-workflows Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IddXPepIAS4 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.