Factory Reframes Coding As Production Line

The compelling shift is from prompting agents to operating an engineering system; faster code only matters when every change remains reproducible, reviewable, and safe.

• –Standardized work intake gives agents clearer scope, acceptance criteria, and ownership
• –Sandboxed execution and automated bug reproduction reduce the risk of unverifiable changes
• –Human judgment moves toward approving intent, architecture, and release decisions
• –Continuous verification makes agent-authored and human-authored changes subject to the same quality gates
• –The real challenge is measuring defect rates, cycle time, and rollback frequency—not agent activity