Robert Douglass
Robert Douglass is the creator of Spec Kitty, an MIT-licensed, spec-driven development framework for AI coding agents that turns requirements into governed work packages (spec, plan, tasks, review, merge) with a Kanban dashboard, isolated git worktrees, and support for all popular agent harnesses. He has spent two decades in open source. An early Drupal contributor with more than 50 modules to his name, he wrote one of the first books about Drupal, helped found the Drupal Association, and was among Acquia's first employees before leading product at Commerce Guys and serving as Chief DevRel Officer at Platform.sh. He is a former FrOSCon speaker, having presented on Drupal at the conference in 2006 and 2007, and running its Drupal developer room in 2008 and 2009.
Sessions
Agents are invading modern software development. The gap between what we whisper into the black box (our Intent) and what we actually ship (the 100K LOC we didn't read) can be costly. Software teams are asking the question "Does this work on my legacy codebase with 3M lines in an ancient language?" This talk introduces spec-driven development: a methodology where clear, executable specifications become the north star of your development process, and the cognitive load of reviewing agentic output shifts left.