Ditch the agent factory: making the pull request the unit of AI coding work
railsonamaui · reddit · 2026-11-15
Inspired by Steve Yegge's take that most teams don't need a software factory, the author abandoned his own collapsing agent factory and made the pull request the unit of work: each PR states intent, risk and verification so humans decide merge-or-steer fast, with unreviewed merges still feeding retros. The workflow lives in deterministic code rather than prompts to minimize skill tokens, and tracks token/time costs — example PR 1182 cost $20.22 and was ready in under 2 hours. Open source at github.com/shakacode/shaka, and composes with skills from poteto and mattpocockuk.
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