Latest AI Agents posts
AI changed how we write software. We must change how we release it.
Introducing Release Autopilot.
Jonathan Nolen
Making AI measurable: How I think about the value of AI initiatives
A simple framework for tying AI initiatives to the business metrics they’re supposed to move.
David Ziemann
Podcast recap: “AWS for Software Companies Podcast” with Jonathan Nolen
As an AWS Advanced Technology and AI Competency Partner, LaunchDarkly joined AWS’s podcast on how software leaders are keeping up with the fast-changing cloud and AI landscape.
Betsy Sallee
What is an AI software factory?
In an AI software factory, agents build and engineers decide what ships. Learn why code changes and agent behavior both need control in production.
Sophia Theofanos
The frontier loves feature flags
Two ideas stand out: using classification to drive automation, and treating feature flags as the last line of defense.
Tim Cook
Build a software factory small enough to understand
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build an AI software factory that moves a unit of intent from request to production.
Alexis Roberson
3 reasons teams can’t trust their AI agents with more
Here’s why the teams that are trying to build capable, trustworthy agents without adjusting their development process are struggling.
Kelvin Yap
Stories from the Factory Floor: Why AI software factories won’t always look like factories
There's a world of difference between wiring up coding agents for a side project and building a software factory inside a codebase that ships to thousands of customers at scale.
Ramon Niebla
The software factory stack everyone forgot to finish
Most software factory diagrams stop the moment software becomes consequential.
Scarlett Attensil
The AI software factory era: A five-part video series
Marek Poliks, Head of AI at LaunchDarkly, and Mirco Hering, Managing Director of AI Delivery at Accenture, discuss what it takes to automate the SDLC.
Betsy Sallee
Stories from the Factory Floor: My own private software factory
Four agents, one Jira board, and a week’s worth of bugs nobody had noticed.
Henry Barrow
Stories from the Factory Floor: Building a self-driving ops triage loop
How the Foundation team at LaunchDarkly automated ops triage with three Cursor agents that take an alert all the way to an open PR.
Ari Salem
Introducing the LaunchDarkly AI SDK
The LaunchDarkly AI SDK is available for Python and JavaScript and is the path we recommend for every new AgentControl integration.
Kelvin Yap
A human look at the AI future
Honest reflections on the uncertainty, excitement, and opportunities of the agentic era.
Sarah Day
You can't control what you can't see
What LaunchDarkly showed live on the Control Panel: how to see what's happening in production, act on it in real time, and test on data you already trust.
Kellye King
Podcast recap: Observability won’t save your agents
On a recent episode of the MonkCast, Marek Poliks spoke with James Governor about why governing agents from the outside leaves teams perpetually one step behind.
LaunchDarkly
Agent Optimization: Define what better means, and let AgentControl find it
Agent Optimization, now in beta in AgentControl, automatically searches for a better agent configuration against criteria you define.
Kelvin Yap
Stories from the Factory Floor: Building a software factory on our scariest code
We pointed coding agents at our oldest, most business-critical frontend. Here’s what it taught me about what a healthy AI software factory actually looks like.
Alexis Georges
Stories from the Factory Floor: Empowering agents with LaunchDarkly MCP tools
A new capability on the LaunchDarkly MCP server offers a practical look at what an automated software factory could look like in practice.
Ramon Niebla
Stories from the Factory Floor: Entering the AI software factory era
What automating the SDLC at LaunchDarkly taught me about speed, control, and the job of an engineer.
Jonathan Nolen
Observability is not enough
With runtime control, teams can extend observability by moving beyond reactive monitoring and toward proactive remediation.
Betsy Sallee
Speed isn't the risk. Lack of control is.
Why controlling code and agents in the AI era matters—and why we built AgentControl.
Kellye King
The Complete AI Experimentation Guide: Test, compare, validate, and ship safely
Artificial intelligence tools aren’t like traditional software.
Scarlett Attensil
Adaptive Triggers: AI that corrects itself in production
Adaptive Triggers is now available in closed beta.
Kelvin Yap
