The engineer’s guide to building a software factory

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Key takeaways:

• Individual agents plateau at 20-30% gains, not the 2-3x teams expect.
• The fix is to use multi-agent loops with separated objectives, not one agent checklisting.
• Three loops lead: PR→merge, Ticket→PR, Alert→resolution, each with major measured gains.

In conversations with hundreds of engineering leaders, I keep hearing the same pattern. Teams went in expecting coding agents to make them 2-3x more productive. What they actually see at the org level is more like 20-30%, which is real, but not what anyone was promised.

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