Software factories and the agentic moment

kept by eddie feb 10

StrongDM's AI-driven 'software factory' replaces human code writing and review with agent teams, using scenario holdouts for validation, but faces skepticism around cost, security, and validation limits.

Levels of Agentic Engineering
The article proposes an 8-level ladder of AI-assisted coding autonomy, from manual prompting to fully autonomous multi-agent software factories.
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The Shape of the Thing - by Ethan Mollick
AI has entered a new agentic era where models can autonomously complete hours of human work, and exponential capability improvements are now driving radical organizational experiments like StrongDM's "Software Factory" that ships code without human touching it.
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LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends
Simon Willison predicts LLMs will write undeniably good code in 2026, sandboxing will be solved, and a coding agent security disaster is imminent.
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Fragments: April 29
The post collects expert perspectives on AI-assisted development, emphasizing verification over generation, harness engineering, function structure, and the cultural divide between software thinking and human experience.
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