The Software Factory Is Not About Coding Agents: Why the 80% of Engineering Work Is the Real Target
Automating code generation addresses only a small fraction of engineering cycle time; the real value of a Software Factory comes from integrating agents across the full SDLC—triage, planning, evaluation, validation, shipping, and monitoring—where most latency and cost reside.
AngleReframe the AI engineering conversation from coding assistants to process-wide automation, using time-allocation data and the factory pipeline.
Source video ↗Token Leaderboards Are a Productivity Trap: Switch to Outcome Metrics for AI Engineers
Measuring agent productivity by token volume incentivizes wasteful generation and cost overruns; teams must adopt outcome metrics like cycle time, autonomy ratio, code shelf life, incident MTTR, and cost per PR to align agents with delivery value.
AngleExpose the perverse incentives of token-based KPIs and provide a migration path to outcome instrumentation.
Source video ↗Model Agnosticism Is a Routing Problem, Not a Procurement Policy
Treating model choice as a runtime routing decision—dispatching complex tasks to frontier models and cheaper open-source models for routine work like code review—optimizes cost and performance, but requires new routing and evaluation infrastructure.
AngleContrast static provider lock-in with dynamic per-task routing, and outline the engineering needed to validate routing quality.
Source video ↗Pave the Roads for Agents and Humans Alike: The Dual-Use Case for Agent Readiness
Investing in agent readiness—validation, build systems, feedback loops, docs, security posture—benefits human engineers and agents equally, making codebase hygiene a strategic prerequisite rather than a side task.
AngleArgue that agent readiness is not agent-only scaffolding but shared infrastructure, with examples like linters, readmes, and agent.md files.
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