Pragmatic Leverage in the Software Factory This one is a bit of an addendum / side-quest to the recent series. It didn't fit cleanly into the main post so I'm publishing it standalone. It is referenced briefly in [Why Software Factories Fail](…↗

Why Software Factories Fail or: the harness is not enough Update - the talk version of this post is live on youtube: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M) Part 1 in a series. Part 2 is here: …↗

Most startups celebrate their first couple million of revenue. @FactoryAI gave it back. They didn’t have to. They chose to. They decided that the product just wasn’t good enough yet, and they wanted to know that they’d really earned it. They wanted their customers to be obse…↗

What Is a Software Factory? Earlier this year, our team at 8090 took apart the billing engine of a large entity. It was 18 million lines of COBOL and Assembly that had been accumulating since before some of our engineers were even born. Nobody fully understood it anymore but by…↗

Today @Madisonkanna and I talked with @dexhorthy about software factories, fighting slop, and why 3 AM incidents are essential for building intuition. An overview: 0:06 Conversations and themes at this year's conference 1:14 What is a software factory? 2:39 X vs. Twitter 2:56 Fa…↗

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No-one has figured out how an eng team should work with agents yet. Be wary of anyone telling you they know how to do it. Keep exploring. blog.exe.dev/bones-of-the-s…↗