Brett Beutell

There is no single correct way to assemble a software factory. Labs want us to trust agents more than we should. Tech influencers gloss over important, practical details. This workshop introduces several composable patterns for making a codebase more factory-like: to improve the throughput, quality, and verifiability of autonomous agent work in your project.We will cover: - Planning the work that gets handed over to a software factory- Converting plans and specifications to durable internal docs (and rules) that don’t go stale- Task decomposition for coding agents, and the tools that help with it- Review strategies and tools that can manage massive PRs - Agent-friendly QA setups that allow coding assistants to verify their work and fix bugs before human review- When you can safely skip human review entirely- The role of sandboxes (local and remote) for scaling and handling agent work on your codebase