Stop Babysitting Coding Agents: The 4-Layer Architecture of Agentic Software Factories
intellectronica · x · 2026-10-09
Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Eleanor Berger argue for moving beyond babysitting coding agents toward asynchronous "agentic software factories": agree on an outcome, grant context and authority, and return to either a verified result or a clear blocker.
They cite real deployments — Stripe's Minions turning requests into candidate PRs, Ramp's Inspect running agents in the background, and Warp Factories — and lay out a 4-layer hierarchy starting with the Harness (environment and tools for reading, editing, and running code) to scale from single-session agents to factory-style delegation.
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