CTO Network - The Spec-Driven Bet
Zero Code written: Inside Altura's Spec-Driven Bet
You've got agents writing code. Maybe a whole pipeline. Cursor, Claude Code, the works. Now you're wondering why your team is still the bottleneck between intent and implementation.
What if the spec was the product? And code was just a build artifact you never touch?
One team tried it. They stopped writing code in January. Not as an experiment. As a workflow.
Not panels. Not pitches. Just 30+ CTOs and founding engineers dissecting whether this is the future of software development or the fastest route to unmaintainable chaos.
Opening deep dive with Martijn Schouten, Senior AI Engineer at Altura
Altura builds AI-powered bid management for enterprise. Series A backed by Octopus Ventures. Clients like Adecco and EY across five countries. Their engineering team writes specs. Agents write code. That's the entire workflow.
Martijn will unpack what actually happens when you make that leap:
🏗️ Burning the Boats How do you move an engineering team from writing code to writing specs without losing velocity, quality, or your best people?
🔧 Where It Breaks Specs drift. Tests lag behind. The feedback loop between spec, code, and production isn't free. What's still ugly?
🔭 What Comes Next If code is generated, what does a repo look like in a year? What does code review become? What does a senior engineer actually do all day?
What to expect
Breakfast. Caffeine. Real arguments. A room full of technical founders and CTOs stress-testing whether spec-driven development is a genuine paradigm shift or a well-packaged shortcut to tech debt.
No hype. No sales. Just a team that went all the way and came back with receipts.
Why it matters
Every team is experimenting with AI-assisted development. Almost nobody has committed fully. Altura did. They stopped writing code, started writing specs, and kept shipping to production.
If you're already generating code with agents or planning to, this is your room.
RSVP to join. Limited seats. Invitation only.