The return of tech specs – Frontend Masters Blog
September 15, 2025

I’m confident that going forward, software engineers will need to relearn how to create detailed tech specs for complex changes. It’s also likely that AI will help write and review these specs before implementing them. It’s time to embrace tech specs again because they can be a key to advancing your career.
It turns out that writing technical specifications may ultimately be the way in which we work with our AI agents most effectively in their role as software developers.