Software Factories And The Agentic Moment
In rule form:
Code must not be written by humans
Code must not be reviewed by humans
Finally, in practical form:
If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
StrongDM's Software Factory represents a groundbreaking approach to non-interactive agentic development, where specifications and scenarios guide agents in writing code, running tests, and converging on solutions without human intervention. The initiative was sparked by the improved performance of the second revision of the Anthropic model in late 2024, which enabled the team to explore long-horizon coding workflows. They developed the Digital Twin Universe (DTU), a collection of behavioral clones of third-party services, to validate software at scale and avoid the limitations of traditional testing methods. This unconventional approach has revolutionized the economics of software development, making previously unfeasible tasks now routine.
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