We built a Software Factory: non-interactive development where specs + scenarios drive agents that write code, run harnesses, and converge without human review.
The narrative form is included below. If you'd prefer to work from first principles, I offer a few constraints & guidelines that, applied iteratively, will accelerate any team toward the same intuitions, convictions1, and ultimately a factory2 of your own. In kōan or mantra form:
Why am I doing this? (implied: the model should be doing this instead)
In rule form:
Code must not be written by humans
written by humans Code must not be reviewed by humans
Finally, in practical form:
If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
The StrongDM AI Story
On July 14th, 2025, Jay Taylor and Navan Chauhan joined me (Justin McCarthy, co-founder, CTO) in founding the StrongDM AI team.
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