AI-Native Jumpstart: Building with Spec-Driven Development

Liatrio's Robert Kelly, VP of Innovation, and Damien Storm, Lead AI Enablement Engineer, present their Spec-Driven Development (SDD) workflow, demonstrating how to make AI-assisted engineering reliable and repeatable. They explain that AI coding agents fail not because of model quality but due to insufficient instructions and inadequate context management. To address these challenges, the presenters introduce the four-phase SDD workflow: Spec, Tasks, Build, and Verify. During the demo, they show how the SDD process first generates specifications aligned with user intent, then breaks down tasks, builds implementations with automated testing, and finally verifies results through proof artifacts and validation reports. The workflow is designed to be flexible, transparent, and adaptable to existing development processes. The open-source framework is flexible, transparent, and adaptable to existing processes.