Andrew Melbourne

Member of Technical Staff @ 8090. Building Software Factory.

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@RobImbeault "My PR is cooked" alright does that mean that it is done or that it has 50 unresolved comments?

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@stevenzhang @needtofilm @largePrawn > are you running inference 24/7?

you're not?

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

Nobody builds like Ephraim. If existing browser agents have failed you (like they have failed me) then this is a must-try. Really excited about this approach.

[Ephraim Sun @ephraim888sun]

Your computer watches you do the same work every day.

Why can't it learn to do it for you?

Introducing @Infragrid

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

I wish I had known the last time I googled 'how to center a div' was going to be my last time. I would've been thrilled!

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@kuldip give an agent 20 pages of specs from software factory and it will talk to itself all day lol

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

My first billion token day on Codex 🥲

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@lei_wu post ur stats lil bro

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

Which is less than an average day on Cursor (Automations)

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

A MAN

A PROMPT

A PR

AN INCIDENT

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@RomanHauksson Just under a year later, I've implemented this! Thanks!

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

3/ The build, test, prompt loop is a slot machine. Feels so productive but there are hidden costs to every pivot in the trajectory. Often, you really do need to see a UI before you can make a decision. We will create and embed HTML files into requirements documents for these cases.

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

Requirements for business software should read like a legal contract. There should be no ambiguity about how you expect the application to behave before the agent starts implementing. Three reasons why:

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

2/ The usual agile advice is to get the smallest thing working and then iterate from there. That is a bad way to work with agents. Code is now much faster to produce, so it makes more sense to make and document many more decisions before implementation starts. This is already how rockets, medical devices, and other high-compliance software is built. Requirements are written down, reviewed, and approved before the code is changed. That used to take a team a week. Software Factory can help practically anybody do a decent version of it in an hour.

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@andrewqu first time i'm seeing 'trajectory' outside of academia

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@lei_wu patience, lei. i'm shitposting

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

this is the new 'Sent from my iPhone'

[Andrew Melbourne @melbourneandrew]

@ilaffey2 seems like a pretty safe bet?