Someone asked how I defined a software factory recently, and I think my definition is different from others. To me, a software factory is centralizing your system of agents into one place to build software. That means going from custom coding setups on everyone's machines to a single definition. In practice, it's one source of truth for agent automations, repository access, secret access, sandbox environments, model selections... every aspect of the stack. I think loops and automations are a secondary aspect of this that gets unlocked once you unify everything into an "always-on" agent system. But the heart of it is having the whole team agree on the agent setup, the same way we agree on CI, lint rules, and all the automations we had pre-AI. This also makes it clear what an engineer's job is now: to make the agents better at building software. Not to be prompt monkeys! We like to call it "factory engineering"