Software Factories and the Agentic Moment
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- #AI Agents
- #Software Development
- #Automation
- Introduction of Software Factories: Non-interactive development where specifications and scenarios drive agents to write and test code without human intervention.
- Key principles include avoiding human-written or reviewed code and spending significantly on tokens per engineer to optimize the software factory.
- Formation of the StrongDM AI team in 2025, catalyzed by improvements in Claude 3.5's long-horizon agentic coding workflows that reduced error accumulation.
- Transition from traditional tests to 'scenarios' and 'satisfaction' metrics to better validate software behavior, especially in agentic and LLM-driven environments.
- Development of the Digital Twin Universe (DTU) to clone third-party services for extensive, safe testing beyond production limits.
- Highlight of unconventional economics in software development, where previously unfeasible projects like DTU become routine with agentic workflows.
- Call to embrace new paradigms and discard old constraints of Software 1.0 to fully leverage the potential of software factories.