Software Factories – Oct 27, 2026

0:00 What is a software factory? 4:00 Deterministic workflows vs. autonomous agents 6:02 Keeping human judgment and taste 7:21 Guardrails and a failed autonomous rewrite 9:18 A spectrum of reliability 11:56 Tools vs. skills 13:12 Letting CI/CD enforce the workflow 15:36 From chains and graphs to skills 17:36 Checklists: dependable, not deterministic 19:41 Why use agents instead of workflow engines?