AI Coding Frameworks: What You Get for the Tokens

Makar Glavanar, CTO and co-founder of Solvery, co-founder of the AI agency Pulsar Digital. 10 years in software development, from frontend engineer to CTO. Helps product teams bring AI agents into software development. Spec Kit, BMAD, Superpowers, GSD and dozens of other frameworks promise to make AI coding agents predictable. Each writes its own specs, plans and reports, and each checks the agent's work in its own way. In this talk Makar will cover: - how the frameworks work inside, and why they produce so many artifacts - how they check the agent's work, and where those checks fail - how they differ in practice on quality, cost and time - how to compare frameworks on your own tasks, with a tool you can take home Spoiler: you can go without a framework, and sometimes it works better.