When do software factories outperform individual IDE agents?
Why This Question Matters
The software-factory question asks when agentic work should move from single-developer tools into orchestrated pipelines with review, deployment, memory, and organizational controls.
Current Working Answer
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Source Evidence
- software factories — Topic synthesis
- coding agents — Topic synthesis
- agent evaluations — Topic synthesis
- worldsfair 2026 livestreams — YouTube resource
- youtube htM02KMNZnk — YouTube resource
- youtube htM02KMNZnk slides — Slide/OCR evidence
- 2026 06 30 suraj gupta warp building self improving agent software factories — Official schedule
- 2026 06 29 zach lloyd self improving software factories the new open source model — Official schedule
- 2026 06 29 tereza t kov rise of the software factory — Official schedule
Follow-Up
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