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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
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
Stories from the Factory Floor: Running my baseball side project on an AI software factory
I turned my personal side project into a real-world testbed for our internal software factory implementation. Over a few weeks, the factory created and wired 21 flags for me—and changed how I ship.
Seth Payne
Stories from the Factory Floor: Our AI software factory saved me from an incident and I lived to tell the tale
Last summer, I shipped what I thought was a routine cleanup to production. It turned out to be a bug. But before the vast majority of users ever saw it, our AI software factory caught it and rolled back my change automatically.
Alex Engelberg
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
