EDD Closes the Loop — But Only Half of It

A recent piece by Andrea Laforgia on Expectation-Driven Development (EDD) made the rounds, and it deserves serious attention. The core argument is compelling: AI agents produce code faster than humans can meaningfully review it, so we need a structured protocol for specifying intent before implementation and demanding evidence of fulfillment afterward. The human developer transitions from author to editor — from writing code to evaluating it. That framing is right. And the EDD workflow — write...