This one is worth paying attention to to. They're the most ambitious team I've see exploring the limits of what you can do with this stuff. It's eye-opening.
> If you haven’t spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
Seems to me like if this is true I'm screwed no matter if I want to "embrace" the "AI revolution" or not. No way my manager's going to approve me to blow $1000 a day on tokens, they budgeted $40,000 for our team to explore AI for the entire year.
Let alone from a personal perspective I'm screwed because I don't have $1000 a month in the budget to blow on tokens because of pesky things that also demand financial resources like a mortgage and food.
At this point it seems like damned if I do, damned if I don't. Feels bad man.
Having submitted this I would also suggest the website admin revisit their testing; its very slow on my phone. Obviously fails on aesthetics and accessibility as well. Submitted for the essay.
This is the stealth team I hinted at in a comment on here last week about the "Dark Factory" pattern of AI-assisted software engineering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739117#46801848
I wrote a bunch more about that this morning: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
This one is worth paying attention to to. They're the most ambitious team I've see exploring the limits of what you can do with this stuff. It's eye-opening.
This right here is where I feel most concerned
> If you haven’t spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
Seems to me like if this is true I'm screwed no matter if I want to "embrace" the "AI revolution" or not. No way my manager's going to approve me to blow $1000 a day on tokens, they budgeted $40,000 for our team to explore AI for the entire year.
Let alone from a personal perspective I'm screwed because I don't have $1000 a month in the budget to blow on tokens because of pesky things that also demand financial resources like a mortgage and food.
At this point it seems like damned if I do, damned if I don't. Feels bad man.
> A problem repeatedly occurred on "https://factory.strongdm.ai/".
(I’m one of the people on this team). I joined fresh out of college, and it’s been a wild ride.
I’m happy to answer any questions!
I know you're not supposed to look at the code, but do you have things in place to measure and improve code quality anyway?
Not just code review agents, but things like "find duplicated code and refactor it"?
A few overnight “attractor” workflows serve distinct purposes:
* DRYing/Refactoring if needed
* Documentation compaction
* Security reviews
Relevant blog post from simonw: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/software-factory/
Having submitted this I would also suggest the website admin revisit their testing; its very slow on my phone. Obviously fails on aesthetics and accessibility as well. Submitted for the essay.
Anything special thing about your browser setup? Javascript disabled / browser extension?
Haha yeah if I scroll on my iPhone 15 Pro it literally doesn’t load until I stop.
I get the following on safari on iOs: A problem repeatedly occurred on (url)