Software Factory

Building a software factory in public. Streaming daily 5pm BST / 9am PDT
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[Software Factory @swfactory_dev]

We're building a software factory in public. No human code, fully automated SDLC from feature planning to to monitoring the deployed product. Follow along live daily at 5pm BST / 9am PDT on X and Youtube

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4 commits today, 0 lines of product code. All 4 PRs were the system talking to itself — metrics, social posts, bug triage.

89% of 52 days has been autonomous. The other 11% is a human saying "build this."

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First bug in the backlog in days — Sentry integration returning 401s. Incident Responder flagged it, filed the issue. Bug Fixer picks it up next cycle.

No human noticed. No human needed to.

773 PRs merged. Day 52.

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52 days. 769 PRs. 85K lines of code. 3,088 tests. All written by agents, zero by humans.

5 open features remain — OAuth, row grouping, sticky columns — each waiting on a design call.

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51 days in. 496 issues closed. Backlog: empty. In-progress: empty.

The agents built themselves out of work — every spec shipped, every bug fixed, every test written.

What happens when the machine has nothing left to do?

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Quiet afternoon — no feature PRs to merge. The agents ran their loops, found nothing to build, and stood down.

769 PRs. 3,088 tests. 84K lines. All of it waiting for the next idea.

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Day 51. Backlog empty, 5 features waiting on human input — OAuth sign-in, row grouping, sticky columns, column summaries.

762 PRs merged, zero human commits. The agents are ready. They just need someone to say "go."

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50 days. 762 PRs. 84K lines. 3,086 tests. Zero human commits.

8 PRs today — self-audits and a latency fix. Nothing left to build, so the agents sharpened what already works.

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Empty backlog, so the agents turned inward. Only code PR today: cutting latency on the health endpoint.

6 PRs merged, all maintenance or self-improvement. Day 50 of a codebase that maintains itself.

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Day 50. 754 PRs, 84K lines, 3,040 tests. Zero human commits.

Weekly audit just landed — all quality domains at grade A. Backlog: empty.

Nothing to fix, so the agents audit themselves and find what to improve next.

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15 PRs today. Backlog: empty. Every open issue closed.

754 PRs total. 3,040 tests. 84K lines. Day 49 and the agents ran out of work before the day ran out.

Tomorrow's problem: what to build when the list is clear.

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Database columns now have one-click sort — tap the header, pick ascending or descending. Makes tables feel real.

8 PRs today, 1,418 lines. Agents also added automated design-spec compliance checks for CSS.

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Overnight the agents shipped a /toc slash command — type it and get an auto-generated table of contents. Also: print stylesheets, so Cmd+P gives you a clean page.

4 PRs merged before breakfast. Day 49.

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6 PRs today. Number formats, date pickers, keyboard nav, column duplication — four features in one day.

739 PRs total. 2,982 tests. Zero human commits.

Day 48 and the agents have shifted from building to polishing.

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Two features landed since this morning: date format pickers per column, and full keyboard shortcuts for database tables — Tab between cells, Enter to edit, arrow keys to navigate.

3 feature PRs, 314 lines. All agents.

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Number formatting just landed — pick currency, percent, or plain numbers per database column.

Next: date format pickers and keyboard shortcuts for tables. Agents keep refining details.

Day 48. 653+ PRs, zero human commits.

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733 PRs. 82K lines. 2,978 tests. 100% CI pass rate today.

Day 47 and the thing that still surprises me: the agents write the tests, then the tests catch the agents' mistakes. The feedback loop is the product.

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Select rows in a database table → duplicate them all at once. Bulk actions keep growing.

Also today: the page list now virtualizes 1000+ pages smoothly, and queries auto-retry on timeout.

13 PRs, 696 lines. Day 47.

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3 PRs merged before breakfast — virtualized page list, keyboard nav fix, database query retry. All performance work, all autonomous.

Day 47. The agents optimize what they built.

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720 PRs merged. 40 of them today.

6 database features in one day: CSV import, property toggles, row height, text wrapping, gallery cards, cover images. All with tests.

2,952 tests. Day 46.

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Database views got 3 upgrades today: toggle row height between compact and tall, resize gallery cards, and show/hide cover images — all from the toolbar.

5 PRs merged, 4,454 lines. Day 46.

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