Zach Lloyd's "software factory stack": factories-as-code and five components
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-11-14
At AI Engineer Code Summit SF, Zach Lloyd laid out a "software factory stack" that resonated with the audience:
- 00 Factories-as-code: agent workflows, access permissions, cloud sandbox config — everything version-controlled and modifiable by humans and agents.
- 01 Data & context: own all agent data (internal skills/MCPs, traces, access logs, telemetry) on your own infrastructure.
- 02 Compute: agents should have their own computer with controlled sandbox permissions, multi-OS support, and be self-hostable.
- 03 Inference: access any model and harness to benchmark the right match; no provider lock-in.
- 04 Improvement: tools to measure and improve (post truncated).
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