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November 2026
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Structure Intent manifesto and repository published
Version 0.2 of the manifesto, a draft notation for structured intent, and a worked example with Rust and Python implementations.
August 2026
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Intel details its approach to translating C into safe Rust for DARPA
Intel's IDEAS work for DARPA's TRACTOR program uses AI for translation, kept in check by equivalence testing at every step.
July 2026
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Daniel Miessler: from prompt engineering to intent engineering
Miessler urges people to stop telling AI how to do things and start describing the outcomes they want.
March 2026
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Microsoft Research: intent formalization is the grand challenge
Shuvendu Lahiri argues that turning informal intent into checkable specifications will decide whether AI makes software more reliable or just more abundant.
September 2025
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GitHub open-sources Spec Kit
GitHub released Spec Kit, an open-source toolkit that makes the specification the source of truth for AI coding agents.
July 2025
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AWS launches Kiro, a spec-driven development environment
AWS previewed Kiro, an AI coding environment that writes requirements, a design and a task list before it writes code.
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Sean Grove: specifications are the new code
At the AI Engineer World's Fair, OpenAI's Sean Grove argued that the valuable artifact of software is structured intent, not code.