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Specs copy-paste the product on every increment, and coding agents paraphrase business rules into forks nobody decided. The fix is the same fix we applied to code decades ago: define the rule once, canonically, and make every spec cite it.
AI-assisted delivery is probabilistic, but product boundaries do not have to be. Product Definition as Code provides a bounded product ontology before the backlog and the spec, while keeping runtime enforcement where it belongs: in the software.
AI accelerates software delivery and shifts the bottleneck to product thinking. I propose Product Definition as Code: a versioned graph of product artifacts that provides deterministic context to agents and humans before a single line of code is written.
AI can generate code faster than we can govern it. This article connects drift, specs, OpenSpec, and GitHub Spec Kit through the idea that really matters now: orchestration.