The Engineer's Guide to Building a Software Factory
LeadDev, Thursday, September 10th, 2026
Build loops, not just agents: the feedback structure matters more than the individual automation.
This guide approaches the software factory concept from an engineering rather than a strategy perspective, and its organizing idea is to build loops rather than just agents.
An agent that produces output without a verification and correction path creates work downstream; a loop that generates, tests, evaluates and retries contains its own errors.
The article covers which feedback signals are reliable enough to close a loop around, and which require human judgment.
For teams adding agents to their delivery pipeline, this is the difference between throughput gain and review backlog.