Writing down specs for technical projects is a transformational skill.

I've had projects that seemed tedious or obvious in my head only to realize hidden complexity when trying to put their trivial-ness into written words. It really is a sort of meditation on the problem.

In the most important AI assisted project I've shipped so far I wrote the spec myself first entirely. But feeding it through an LLM feedback loop felt just as transformational, it didn't only help me get an easier to parse document, but helped me understand both the problem and my own solution from multiple angles and allowed me to address gaps early on.

So I'll say: Do your own writing, first.