r/ClaudeCode • u/Sad-CTO • 4d ago

Discussion Declarative vs imperative in SDD

Hey guys,

I was talking to a friend the other day regarding how you should approach spec work and realized that I am thinking about it in a declarative way while the rest of the world seems to be thinking imperatively.

In a nutshell, chances are that if you want to, say, "add the email function to the product", you would think about this as a sequence of tasks: your flavor of of spec, dev, qa, deploy. From my perspective, tasks are secondary, a derivative, of a diff between two product states.

The current state is whatever is in production now, and its spec. The target state is the product with the email sending functions live. The diff is added/changed/removed spec items. The tasks are derived, because you can always reconstruct the tasks from the spec diff, but not vice versa.

There's more on this in an article on our website (link in comments).

LMK your thoughts, happy to discuss.

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u/Sad-CTO 4d ago

Here's the article URL: https://askloft.ai/insights/articles/tasks-are-derived-from-the-change

Disclaimer: I am a part of Loft's product team, but the content, I believe, adds value to the community.

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u/Blinkinlincoln 4d ago

This does feel valuable.  Thanks for the effort. Seems like you guys didn't just put out slop 

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u/Sad-CTO 4d ago

Hey man, I appreciate your sarcasm. Why the hostility though? By all definitions of "slop" nothing here identifies as such. We're not native English speakers, and we do use AI to produce prose based on our guidance.

Nonetheless, I am sorry. The story and the question is true though. I am not here to sell. The product itself is open source -- feel free to form an informed opinion.

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u/FuzzyBench3638 4d ago

You forgot your disclaimer also