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Control for reasoning before you credit spec-first prompting for the quality gain
A study accepted at GAISS 2026 reports that a specification baseline increased the attributability of reviewers' bug finds without increasing their count, and that on easy tasks the credit for spec-first prompting mostly belongs to reasoning effort.
Publishers:infoq.com
Reality
- Evidence36
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives55
- Confidence40