Paul Everitt

Developer Advocate at JetBrains (makers of WebStorm, PyCharm, IntelliJ). Long-time Python/web community figure.

In this vault

• Full Course Spec-Driven Development with Coding Agents (DeepLearningAI) — instructor. Teaches a three-phase Spec-Driven Development (SDD) loop (constitution → feature loop of plan/implement/validate → replan) using Claude Code in WebStorm. Signature lines: "The agent is the muscle, but the spec is the brain"; "You have to run slow to run fast"; "The specs you write today become the memory of your projects tomorrow." Emphasises the human as architect/supervisor, Cognitive Debt management, brownfield adoption via a reverse-engineered Project Constitution, and agent portability via Agent Client Protocol (ACP) (a JetBrains-backed standard — note the vendor interest).