What’s your working theory?

A software factory model for software engineering should be created. Not only does it make economic sense, it is a bounded unit that architects and CFOs can reason about. Centralizing to a factory model provides the exact fuel that a continuously learning, “agentic” factory needs – endless data, often easily labeled, governance and the network effects that keep reinforcing loops spinning.

There are a lot of “if” conditions between here and there. It will take hard work – but the trajectory is clear, and we can build structural advantage now.

Context Switching

The standard workflow for agentic AI looks something like this: an agent runs, hits something uncertain, and pauses to ask a human. The industry has formalized this pattern under the label “human-in-the-loop” (HITL), and most teams treat these interrupts as a safety feature. They’re not wrong about the safety part – the presence of people in the system is a feature, not a bug. But we can build guardrails and teach the systems to do far better than they do today.

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