Building the software factory from the spec up | LinearB's Ariel Illouz & Ofer Affias
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Building the software factory from the spec up | LinearB's Ariel Illouz & Ofer Affias

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 13, 202645 min
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LinearB's software factory spends more time on the spec than on the code. VP of Engineering Ariel Illouz spent the last year moving his team of about 30 engineers from vibe coding to spec-driven development, starting with a single spec-writing skill and a rule that every story above three story points gets a spec. This week on Dev Interrupted, he and returning guest Ofer Affias, LinearB's senior director of product, join Andrew to walk through a project Ariel puts at six months without AI that shipped in roughly four weeks, at least two of them spent on specs. Ofer explains...

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Welcome back to Dev Interrupted, brought to you by Linear-B. This one's a double feature with two of our home, Linear-B's VP of Engineering, Ariel Luz, and Director of Product, Ofer Afeus. Over the last year, Ariel moved his teams of engineers from vibe coding to spec-driven

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development, starting with just one skill and one rule. By sticking to simplicity, the team found a harmonious loop. Ophir calls their role in Linear B's engineering org a double challenge because Linear B is going through

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these agentic transformations just as much as their end users. So how does Linear B use its own platform to build a software factory?

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