Notes from the builders
Field notes from people mid-build: real faces, real trade-offs, and the decisions behind live programmes.
13 Aug 2026 · The software factory practice
Where the engineer's hours go
When agents write the code, the engineer's job becomes judgment — and judgment deserves the same flow state that writing code once had. How the factory visualizes change so a person can decide without reading raw diffs, and what the harness measures about where the hours actually move.
12 Aug 2026 · The software factory practice
A factory with the lights on
A software factory is the machine that turns what a business says into software it can use. We build one per customer, because the estate decides which agents are worth defining — and we run every one of them with the lights on, because the judgment is the part that cannot be automated.
4 Aug 2026 · The engagement strategy practice
The compression problem
Software gets built from a description of a description. What survives the handovers, what it costs when nothing survives, and the two things worth doing about it.
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