Building your own software factory
summary
Demonstrates a working agent-first setup using Cursor 3, spawning cloud agents with separate VMs to run isolated dev environments, record UI test videos and control the computer; shows a music project built largely without human coding that verifies itself via Playwright end-to-end tests and feature-flag workflows. Describes rule emergence, an agentic code‑owner approver, continual learning that extracts rules from transcripts, and a self‑hosted worker for local VMs. Claims scale into hundreds or thousands of concurrent agents and shows the approach actually working end‑to‑end.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Workshop introduction and vision for autonomous software factories
- 1:26Frameworks and stages of agentic autonomy
- 8:58Establishing scalable, reproducible dev environments for agents
- 10:00Importance of verifiable systems and automated testing pipelines
- 10:47Cursor 3 walkthrough: Redesigned agent-first interface
- 15:26Cloud agents: Scaling via dedicated VMs and computer control
- 19:17Managing asynchronous workflows and frontloading context
- 24:45Automating repetitive tasks to build feedback loops
- 29:28Continual learning: Extracting rules from chat transcripts
- 30:48Scaling management: Moving to nested agent orchestration
- 31:08Strategic takeaways: Human accountability and observability
- 33:39Q&A: Addressing code quality and architectural guardrails
- 53:07Best practices for human-to-agent collaboration and handoffs
- 1:03:05Maintaining the factory: Managing documentation and specs
- 1:10:06Integrating Linear and Slack for automated issue triage
- 1:14:14Local execution: Leveraging Cursor harness locally
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