Building a Software Factory with Agent Loops
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-07-16
The author notes that while vibe coding can push things quite far, it’s not yet enough to build a true engineering team; the next step is a "software factory" driven by agent loops.
While building a TypeScript harness named Squid, they initially tried having Claude Code generate the entire app at once. The UI looked finished, but details were massively flawed: skills weren't invoked, slash commands failed, and the TUI only rendered the first few characters. They scrapped this approach, opting to have the model implement features incrementally rather than writing the whole app in one go.
Squid is designed to operate like a real engineering organization, breaking tasks down into multiple specialized collaborating agents rather than being driven by a single massive prompt.
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