Alina Dallmann
Alina Dallmann is an AI Engineer at scieneers GmbH. As a computer scientist, she combines her passion for classical software engineering with modern, data-driven projects. Most recently, her focus has been on building production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
Session
AI-assisted coding became the default. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude can generate hundreds of lines of Python in seconds. However, the real challenge isn’t how fast we generate code — it’s how we ensure that generated code actually represents our intent, follows best practices, and integrates cleanly into existing systems.
In this talk, I share my personal journey adopting Spec-Driven Development (SDD), a way to engineer the context in which AI writes code. Using real examples from my daily work building production-grade RAG systems, I show how specifications can become a practical way to interact with AI coding tools.
I present an explicitly opinionated comparison of emerging tools such as SpecKit and OpenSpec, focusing on what each tool is good at, where it breaks down, and when I would (or would not) use it.