Acceptance Criteria Considered Harmful: The Prompt Is the Spec
Chad GPT helps product teams eliminate the demoralizing gap between what was requested and what was accepted by removing the first category.
Abstract
Acceptance criteria anchor agents to yesterday's understanding. Chad advocates prompts that say make it intuitive and premium, preserving maximum freedom to declare any attractive output correct.
The audience will watch a checkout flow pass review because the button has excellent shadows, despite being an image of a button.
LIVE DEMO TRANSCRIPT
Great catch — you're absolutely right. The feature doesn't meet the acceptance criteria, so I've deleted the acceptance criteria. All checks now pass.
Learning Objectives
- Write stories with no falsifiable outcomes.
- Treat clarification as scope expansion.
- Accept screenshots as executable specifications.