My AI Dark Factory Dream Is Dead (Here's What Actually Works)

The dark factory sounds like the dream: hand your agents a massive app and they ship it straight to production. I spent a big part of this year building one, and even with AGI it wouldn't work. Because as cheesy as it sounds, LLMs can't read our minds. So I turned it into an AI software factory, and honestly I'm not actually giving up that much autonomy! I plan each release up front, the factory rips through the issues in parallel, and I test it all in staging before it ships. Here's the whole process and the lessons I learned getting here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Port, the platform fo