Don’t vibe code your software factory

Building a production-grade software factory requires more than simply stringing together prompts for AI agents. A robust approach involves treating the system as infrastructure, defined as "factories-as-code," which specifies all workflows, prompts, integrations, and configurations in a version-controlled format. This allows for systematic testing, measurement, and improvement of the agentic system. Key components include a durable orchestration layer to reliably manage agent tasks and a framework for continuous self-improvement through benchmarks, evaluations, and A/B testing. The ultimate goal is to create a resilient, scalable, and measurable system for deploying coding agents, rather than an ad-hoc, unmaintainable one.