From GitHub Copilot to Spec-Driven Development: Roman Ivanov on Where Software Engineering Is Headed
Roman Ivanov has been a software engineer for more than ten years, starting his career in banking on back-end systems. His first real brush with modern AI was GitHub Copilot in 2022 — and he turned it off. The tool was impressive at times, but it couldn't hold the context of his codebase, so the suggestions rarely landed. When ChatGPT arrived, everything changed. It replaced his Google search outright.
In this episode, Roman joins Yousuf to walk through how his day-to-day work has evolved since. He now builds "spec-driven" — writing a detailed, low-level specification for a feature or service…
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