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Where My Level 5 Software Factory Doesn't Cut It Yet
My Level 5 software factory ships code unattended, until it hits CI limits, 50-node plans, or reward-hacking loops. Three lessons from recent failures.
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History Repeats. Humans Forget.
Everyone is talking about AI in extremes. We said the exact same things about server virtualization and Kubernetes. Generative AI is a tool. Let's learn how to use it.
Technical
Loops All the Way Down, Part 1: Two Kinds of Work
Agentic development is two different jobs, judgement and mechanics, and we keep running them through one chat window. A series on designing the contract between humans and agents, with a month of data from my own software factory.
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Loops All the Way Down, Part 2: The Contract
If humans and agents do different work, something has to sit between them. In my factory, that's a GitHub issue written as a contract: humans define done, machines check it.
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Loops All the Way Down, Part 3: One Adds, Three Correct
My software factory isn't a pipeline. It's loops inside loops, and only one of them needs a person. A month of data on the loops that build, fix, simplify and watch themselves.