StrongDM Software Factory
February 26, 2026
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:
Here, the folks at StrongDM outline their thesis and approach to building a software practice where two key features are humans do not write a line of code and humans do not review a line of code. So how can this possibly work? That’s what they discuss here.
