Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
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Deep analysis of why software factories fail, directly applicable to platform engineering and AI agent orchestration.
The push for fully autonomous 'software factories' that eliminate human code review is causing quality collapses, with Faros AI reporting increased incidents and bugs per developer alongside declining PR review quality. Despite claims that poor results are a skill issue solvable by more loop engineering and token spending, the author argues this is fundamentally a model-training limitation that no amount of harness engineering can overcome. The article warns that companies without proper guardrails are experiencing outages from coding-agent mishaps, and that the industry's rush to ship more code via AI is degrading codebase health faster than ever.
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