The Ticket Took Longer Than the Work

# The Ticket Took Longer Than the Work

45 minutes writing the ticket. Acceptance criteria. Technical details. Edge cases. Dependencies. Labels.

30 minutes implementing with AI.

The ticket took longer than the work.

This isn't an edge case anymore. It's increasingly common. And it raises a question: why are we still writing detailed tickets when the implementation is faster than the specification?

Detailed tickets made sense when:

- Work was handed off between people who didn't share context - Implementation took days or weeks - Requirements needed to be precise before coding started - Mistakes were expensive to fix

In that world, front-loading specification paid off. Better to spend an hour specifying than a week fixing miscommunication.