No, That's Not a Software Factory
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: Expo Stage 3 · Expo Stage 3 SW
- Speaker(s): Ryan Cooke
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Drop an agent in a sandbox, point it at your repo, watch it ship code. Whether you're buying from a
vendor or building it yourself, everyone is following the same playbook. But a sandbox isn't a
software factory. At WorkOS, we built Project Horizon, and it taught us that infrastructure is only
the first challenge. The unlock is encoding how your org actually builds software: the way work gets
planned, scoped, and verified, the conventions and judgment calls that define your engineering
culture. Our product engineering process served as the blueprint for every agent workflow we built
in Horizon.
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