Engineering is now 20% prompting and 80% tuning the agents that execute your prompts
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-10-30
BHolmesDev argues engineering has shifted to 20% prompting and 80% tuning the agents that execute prompts. Quoting Zach Lloyd's 'software factory' thesis: treat factories as an infra platform where everyone does 'factory engineering' — improving skills, models and context, automating chore work, benchmarking factory workflows, and building self-improvement loops with agents. Warp Factories ships this tooling built-in.
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