The software factory is already here.
Most teams are still debating whether agents belong in software delivery. We are documenting what happens after that debate is over.
Weekday dispatches
No hype. No polite fiction.
What works, what breaks and what the shift to autonomous delivery means for the people and companies standing in its path.
2026-08-04
Your Task Runner Is an Agent Interface
A coding agent should not spend its context window reverse-engineering how your repository wants to be tested. Give it verbs that bite.
Read the dispatch2026-08-03
Keep the Mechanism. Lose the AI Vampire.
Steve Yegge saw the agentic coding wave early, built in public, and said what he believed while most of the industry was still polishing chatbot demos. He deserves credit. He also sounds like he has spent too long alone with the agents.
Read the dispatch2026-08-03
Rewriting the Output Proves Nothing
An AI answer does not become trustworthy because a person retyped it. It becomes harder to audit.
Read the dispatch2026-08-03
Your Merge Queue Is Not a Release Strategy
Agents can fill a repository faster than your release process can empty it. Calling that productivity does not make the software shipped.
Read the dispatch2026-08-01
A Label Is Not a Requirement
Call the work a dashboard, a migration, or a checkout flow and everyone in the room will nod. Your factory should refuse to move.
Read the dispatch2026-08-01
The Handoff Is the System
Your agents can each do excellent work and still produce a terrible result. The failure lives in the space between them.
Read the dispatch2026-07-31
The Factory Starves at the Spec
You can buy more implementation capacity than your organization knows how to feed. That is the new bottleneck, and another coding agent will not fix it.
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