The Manifesto

The plausibility vs. reliability gap

AI coding agents have changed what a single developer can do in a day. You can now ask for a feature and get plausible code back in minutes. But plausible is not reliable.

Plausible code looks right. It compiles, it demos well, it answers the prompt. Reliable code is different: it satisfies requirements you can point at, it has tests that prove it, and it carries documentation that still matches it next month. Plausibility is a feeling. Reliability is evidence.

The gap between plausible and reliable is where projects quietly die.

Why now

For decades, specification-driven development was reserved for teams with compliance budgets — IEC 62304, DO-178C, ISO 26262. Everyone else iterated on vibes and issue trackers. That trade-off made sense when humans wrote every line, because humans kept the context in their heads.

Agents don't keep context. They generate, and they forget. The only durable memory a team has is what's written down — and the only way written things stay true is if something checks them.

What we believe

Markdown is the lingua franca. Specs shouldn't live in a tool you license; they should live in your repo, next to the code they govern.

Traceability is a compiler pass, not a paperwork exercise. If a requirement, a line of code, and a test can't be linked mechanically, the link doesn't exist.

Best practice, not compliance theater. ezsdd helps you do what the heavy standards got right — intent, evidence, review — without the ceremony. We will never claim regulatory conformance for you. We help you deserve it.

Open beats closed. The playbooks, the tooling and the community hub are open source. Bring your own SDLC.

The pledge

ezsdd exists to close the plausibility gap for every team — the two-person startup and the regulated shop alike. Documentation as code. Traceability as a gate. Made effortless.