I think he makes an assumption that is fundamentally incorrect in the vast majority of cases: that the people owning the programs care about specification. The

I think he makes an assumption that is fundamentally incorrect in the vast majority of cases: that the people owning the programs care about specification. There is a huge, dark-matter body of software development that goes on in the world under the thumb of megalomaniacs whose only metric of productivity is how much unpaid overtime his programmers are working.