Cole Medin open-sources an AI software factory: PRD in, shipped code out, no human reads it
Cole Medin · youtube · 2026-09-03
- YouTuber Cole Medin presents the "AI Software Factory": a PRD goes in, gets split into tasks, and shipped code comes out — with nobody reading the code in between.
- He ran this "dark factory" experiment all year to build and maintain Dynachat, an AI tutor app he says he has never read a line of.
- The factory is now open source: paste the prompt at the top of the README into your coding agent to install the whole setup. It runs on Archon, his open-source workflow engine, plus a skill that builds a dark factory from scratch.
- Early alpha; his top priority going forward. The video also references Dan Shapiro's "Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory" framing.
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