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It Was Never a Model Problem: The Specification Gap in AI-Assisted Software Engineering

Position/synthesis paper — five independent lines of published evidence located at the input side. Zenodo, 18 Aug 2026 · CC BY 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21988044.

BibTeX

@misc{dhuri2026neveramodel,
  author={Dhuri, Sandeep}, title={It Was Never a Model Problem: The Specification Gap in AI-Assisted Software Engineering},
  year={2026}, doi={10.5281/zenodo.21988044}, url={https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21988044}}

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