The Missing Layer in AI Data Pipelines: Designing with Spec-Driven Development

Your Cortex Code sessions are only as good as the document you write before opening them The Missing Layer in AI Data Pipelines: Why Spec-Driven Development Matters - In the previous piece, I explored why intent gets lost in AI pipelines. This is what actually fixes it. Read that first I keep coming back to a question someone asked during a. We had just watched Cortex Code build a full dbt pipeline from plain English. Multi-table joins. Governance policies. A working Streamlit dashboard. All of it, in six sessions. People were genuinely impressed. Then someone raised their hand.