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Sharing the Thinking Behind the Thinking
March 29, 2026·7 min read
AI makes human reasoning invisible. Four practices to close the new communication gap.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Turning a White-Glove Process Into a Self-Serve Workflow
March 24, 2026·8 min read
Denise is CEO and co-founder of Variata, an AI-powered testing platform. Her product lets teams validate their websit...
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Solo AI Keeps Getting Better. Team AI Keeps Getting Worse.
March 20, 2026·4 min read
The problem isn't the tools — it's context fragmentation. Solo productivity is up, team coherence is down.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Please Review the Safety Card Before Airdropping Your Prototype
March 16, 2026·5 min read
At a recent product and engineering leadership roundtable, a PM director said: \"I built a prototype that shows exactl...
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Why Your Product Decisions Keep Getting Relitigated
March 10, 2026·5 min read
Relitigated decisions stem from mixing divergent and convergent thinking. Name the mode before you start.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The Rise of the Producing Manager
February 8, 2026·12 min read
What cognitive science says about managing AI coding agents. Developers are becoming producing managers.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Planning Work for Our Single-Threaded Brains
February 5, 2026·19 min read
When dual-tasking works, when it doesn't, and why — what cognitive science tells us about managing AI coding agents.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Conversation → Decisions → Strategy
January 27, 2026·1 min read
Watch a live conversation become a strategy document. Decisions with context, not just notes.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
7 Lessons Learned From 25 Years of New Product Introduction
November 22, 2025·1 min read
Find your vanguard. Find an excruciating pain. Define a platform mission. Deliver a specific solution.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Mitchell Hashimoto on the AI-Assisted Future of Open Source
October 20, 2025·10 min read
What the Ghostty creator learned reviewing hundreds of AI-generated pull requests
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
SpecStory in Action: How a Deleted Repo Was Rebuilt from History
October 6, 2025·4 min read
A coding agent deleted an entire repository. SpecStory's preserved session histories made full recovery possible.
Antaripa Saha
Engineering & Growth
How to be an Open Source Hero: Contributing AI-Generated Code with Care
October 2, 2025·4 min read
A guide for contributors and maintainers on responsible AI-assisted open source contributions.
Jake Levirne & Antaripa Saha
Co-founder & CEO + 1 more
SpecStory in Action: From AI Session to Blog Post
September 29, 2025·3 min read
How an early user turned a preserved AI coding session into a published blog post.
Antaripa Saha
Engineering & Growth
Agile is a Sledgehammer: We Need a Toolbox
September 28, 2025·20 min read
How teams can move faster using mixed methodologies
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The Middle Way
September 23, 2025·6 min read
How AI is Actually Changing Software Development
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Intentional Underspecification
August 4, 2025·3 min read
When bad prompting is actually good
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Building a Mintlify Alternative with AI (Part 1)
July 14, 2025·9 min read
From idea to 'Hello World' in under an hour — planning, prototyping, and setting up a Next.js documentation platform using AI-driven development.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
SpecStory Studio Case Study
June 8, 2025·9 min read
A process mining analysis of how four developers orchestrated AI agents to build a complex software system in 25 days.
Greg Ceccarelli
Co-founder & CPO
Workshop: From Vibes to Validation: A Hands-On Approach to Product Discovery
May 9, 2025·1 min read
An 80-minute hands-on workshop on turning intuition into actionable product insights using vibe coding.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
When Anyone Can Build Software, Should I Still Build Software?
May 8, 2025·6 min read
Why this is the beginning, and not the end of software craft
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Now serving two: GitHub Copilot
April 29, 2025·1 min read
SpecStory now supports GitHub Copilot alongside Cursor. Two editors, one canonical memory.
Greg Ceccarelli
Co-founder & CPO
Vibe Coding ≠ Team Flow
April 8, 2025·2 min read
One dev's flow state is another dev's 'wait, what did we just ship?'
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The One-Pizza Team
March 18, 2025·4 min read
How AI is Reshaping Product Development Squads
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
All That's Left is Care
March 6, 2025·3 min read
Why giving a shit matters
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Keep Cursor Aligned with Your Intent
March 4, 2025·4 min read
Introducing SpecStory's Cursor Rules Generator — automatically derived project rules from your AI interactions.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The Hill Climbing Trap
February 25, 2025·2 min read
Startups, local maxima and navigating our path to success
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Build Me Anything: AI-coded Apps from Community Ideas
February 24, 2025·10 min read
Five team members, 15 apps, one day. A Reddit challenge to build anything the community asked for using AI.
Michelle Heffron
Design
From 4 Replies to 24,000 Members
February 6, 2025·4 min read
How Tana built a thriving community by starting small
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Stop Using AI Like a Code Vending Machine
January 26, 2025·7 min read
The Six Modes of Software Composition and How to Use Them
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Dangit, Cursor!?!
January 17, 2025·5 min read
A troubleshooting guide for the 13 most common 'dangit' moments when building with Cursor AI.
Greg Ceccarelli
Co-founder & CPO
Using Cursor to Create Sample Data for your NextJS App
January 12, 2025·6 min read
A hands-on tutorial for getting sample data into a prototype application using Cursor and AI-driven development.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The AI Code Review Gap
January 2, 2025·4 min read
Quick to write, pain to review
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Getting Started with Software Composition
December 18, 2024·15 min read
A basic tutorial for coding without coding
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
A CEO's Journey Back to Code
December 16, 2024·5 min read
How AI-driven development tools pulled me back into hands-on coding after decades in product leadership.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
SpecStory Launch
December 16, 2024·1 min read
Introducing SpecStory — capture, search, and learn from every AI coding journey.
Greg Ceccarelli
Co-founder & CPO
Recording by Default
December 10, 2024·4 min read
Our practical approach for turning meetings into shared insight
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Loading... A Design Philosophy
December 3, 2024·4 min read
Why starting with blur can lead to clearer results
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
My Best Team Tool is Not Another App
November 26, 2024·2 min read
How real-time writing makes us truly agile
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
The Hard Truth I Will Not Ignore
November 21, 2024·3 min read
Being intent-driven is now central to my story
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Claude Artifacts for Rapid Synthesis of Customer Feedback
August 29, 2024·3 min read
Using Claude Artifacts to synthesize 60+ customer interview transcripts into actionable product insights.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Best Practices for Aligning AI to your Technical Strategy
May 9, 2024·13 min read
Five best practices for keeping AI-generated code aligned with your team's technical strategy.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO
Stack Overflow in the AI Age
April 24, 2024·9 min read
It's not about AI vs. human generated content. Developer communities need to embrace human plus AI.
Jake Levirne
Co-founder & CEO