9 Best AI Tools for Spec-Driven Development in 2026: Kiro, BMAD, GSD, and More Compare
Vibe coding gets you to a prototype. Spec-driven development gets you to production. As AI coding agents grow more powerful, the engineering community has quietly split into two camps: developers who prompt iteratively and hope for the best, and developers who write structured specifications first and let agents execute against them. The second group is shipping faster, with fewer regressions, and with code that survives review. This guide covers the 9 AI tools driving that shift in 2026 — from AWS Kiro's EARS-structured spec IDE to GitHub Spec Kit's 93K-star open-source workflow, to lean execution frameworks like GSD that have crossed 61K stars in under five months. The post 9 Best AI Tools for Spec-Driven Development in 2026: Kiro, BMAD, GSD, and More Compare appeared first on MarkTechPost.