AWS's Marc Brooker: Specs, Not Code, Are the Hard Part

The AI Native Dev - from Copilot today to AI Native Software Development tomorrow
16 September 2026 56 min
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Episode Description
Spec-driven development is reshaping what software engineers actually do all day, and Marc Brooker, VP and Distinguished Engineer at AWS, has read 3,000 to 4,000 postmortems that convinced him the code was never the hard part. In this episode of The AI Native Dev, Marc explains why testing and specification are now the real engineering work, why metastable failures keep taking down systems that look perfectly healthy, and why he still won't let AI write a single word of his blog.What we cover:–

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