Ilyas Kurklu·Oct 20The Dark OfficeRobots do not need light, so the factory went dark. A decision engine does not need segments, so the room where retail decides is next. Not…
Andrei Matsko·Oct 15My AI operating systemI have more things I want to try than evenings to work on them. Agents help, but explaining the next step to each of them can become…
mason bryant·Oct 6Token RacesI have done my share of complaining about how fast Claude goes through a week’s tokens (Steve Yegge, who burns like an order of magnitude…
Oli G.·Sep 19Before I Built a “Dark Factory,” I Compared 11 AI Agent Frameworks 🏭Part one of a three-part series. This post shows my research: which agent framework fits an unattended, self-correcting loop. It also shows…
Ian Johnson·Aug 25Nine stages, two workers, one topic nameThe factory that writes code for me is 2,274 lines of Python. Nine stages: draft a spec, plan it, implement it, prove it ran, review the…
Dominic Wild·Aug 8Coding faster than ComprehensionI’ve been using AI to code since the very beginning, all the way back in 2021 when GitHub Copilot was in technical preview. I’d use it to…
InPlatform Engineering LabsbyJeroen Soeters·Jul 30Towards the dark factory: Autonomous, isolated AI agents in software engineeringHow we built “clanker infrastructure” — autonomous, network-isolated AI agents that pick up tickets, design, implement, and ship PRs…
Resolve AI·Jul 28Dark software factory pattern is only half understoodCo-authored by Dave Lawson and Varun Krovvidi
Manoj Prasanna Handapangoda·Jul 27The Lights Are Off and Nobody’s Home: My Rabbit Hole Into “Dark Factories”A throwaway line at a meetup with the guy from Qwen team sent me down a long research spiral into factories that run themselves and I’m…
Ian Johnson·Jul 8The Governance Gap Is a Boundary ProblemOne of my early factory prototypes had a clean audit trail. Every action an agent took, recorded. Who did it, what it touched, and when it…
