Type: url
Original: https://addyosmani.com/blog/software-factories/
Status: generated
Language: en
Summary
This post layers agentic work into three concepts — the loop, the harness around it, and the software factory as many harnessed loops fed by a queue and drained through a review gate — and contrasts a “dark” factory, where code ships that no human has read, with a “lit” one that keeps human judgment upstream and at the review gate. It argues that verification rather than generation is a factory’s real constraint, that a dark factory accumulates comprehension debt while its tests stay green, and that the skilled work is deciding which loops have earned full automation through cheap, frequent, hard-to-fake checks.