Is it too soon to built software factories?

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12 days ago

I keep hearing about “software factories” / background coding agents that can autonomously work on production repos. It seems like the capabilities are there, but not sure if we have the right tools yet.

There are already some companies providing software for this like ona/factory/codex/claude/cursor

Open-source alternatives - https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents

Big companies like stripe/ramp/uber/spotify built their own background-agents infrastructure

But nothing seems to be mature enough to just work fine. Is it too soon?

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