TechSambad August 24, 2026: SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

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TechSambad August 24, 2026: SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

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9	SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC arXiv:2608.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents backed by large language models with context windows from hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens are restructuring the Software Development Life... [ArXiv cs.AI]

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📚 Research & Papers

9	SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC arXiv:2608.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents backed by large language models with context windows from hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens are restructuring the Software Development Life... [ArXiv cs.AI]

PrimeAgentOrchestrator: Memory-Primed Agent Spawning for Personal AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2608.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents start each session with an empty context window, discarding accumulated knowledge from prior work. We present PrimeAgentOrchestrator (PAO), a... [ArXiv cs.AI]

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