https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/Definitions, research and field notes on agentic engineering, each with its sources and limits.enSun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTdaily1https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/measuring-ai-impact/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/measuring-ai-impact/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTCode volume, pull requests, usage: AI pushes up every number that is easy to count. A Stanford talk and DX data put the measured gain at around 10 percent, and it swings widely from company to company. What to measure instead, where the returns come from, and why things get worse before they get better.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/breaking-the-loop/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/breaking-the-loop/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAgents in a software factory always find another problem, another ticket, another improvement. Only a second, much slower loop can say when the work is finished: the one that reaches the market.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/development-workflow/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/development-workflow/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe development-workflow skill in the software-factory.dev factory is the factory's own map of itself. It shows that the automations never call each other: they coordinate through labels on issues.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/tweet-drafter/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/tweet-drafter/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Tweet Drafter in the software-factory.dev factory posts updates three times a day and reports the daily delta, not the cumulative total, because a total always looks like progress.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/weekly-recap/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/weekly-recap/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe weekly recap automation in the software-factory.dev factory stays honest because the honesty is written into its prompt: the challenges section is what makes it authentic, and an unrecorded number has to be named as unrecorded.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/performance-monitor/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/performance-monitor/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe weekly Performance Monitor in the software-factory.dev factory works because every metric it watches has a hard threshold written into it.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/automation-auditor/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/automation-auditor/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe automation auditor in the software-factory.dev factory inspects every other automation on the line. Its most useful rule: it may never overwrite last week's audit.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/needs-human-requeue/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/needs-human-requeue/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe smallest automation in the software-factory.dev factory puts escalated issues back on the line once a human has answered. The return path from human to machine needs its own owner.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/stale-issue-reviewer/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/stale-issue-reviewer/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Stale-Issue Reviewer at software-factory.dev calls work stale after three hours, not three days, because a watcher's clock has to run at the speed of the line it watches.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/pr-shepherd/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/pr-shepherd/Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe PR Shepherd in the software-factory.dev factory rebases conflicted pull requests but hands semantic conflicts to a human. The hard part of automation is encoding where its competence ends.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/ui-verifier/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/ui-verifier/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe UI Verifier in the software-factory.dev factory screenshots every changed component twice, in isolation and in the real page, because a component that passes in isolation can still fail where it ships.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/coding-agents-organizational-design/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/coding-agents-organizational-design/Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTCheaper local generation pushes the coding-agent constraint into team practice, the shared platform, governance, and learning. One practitioner's four-level model of that shift, held up against what DORA can and cannot support.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/coding-speed-delivery/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/coding-speed-delivery/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTProductivity research measures task time, perceived savings, pull requests, and production flow, each in its own way. Read side by side, the measures show where the constraint moves.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/factory-evidence/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/factory-evidence/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic implementations show that agent-run delivery systems can build and ship software. Read their numbers with a source label, a scope, and careful limits.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/factory-verification/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/factory-verification/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen generating code gets cheap, a Factory's throughput depends on how well the system can establish that a change is acceptable, safe, and worth shipping.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/post-merge-verifier/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/post-merge-verifier/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Post-Merge Verifier in the software-factory.dev factory smoke-tests the real production site after every merge, because passing tests and a working site are two different claims.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/what-is-software-factory/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/what-is-software-factory/Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Software Factory coordinates agents, context, deterministic gates, and human decisions across the path from intent to production.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/pr-reviewer/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/pr-reviewer/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe PR Reviewer in the software-factory.dev factory merges code with no human approval. One number makes that safe: it gives up after three failed attempts to fix CI.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/daily-metrics/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/daily-metrics/Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Daily Metrics automation in the software-factory.dev factory never measures a daily change with a date-filtered query. It subtracts yesterday's cumulative total from today's, a method that cannot drift.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/bug-fixer/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/bug-fixer/Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe bug-fix automation in the software-factory.dev factory has two ways to end a run: it ships a fix or escalates to a human. Honest failure is a feature you have to design.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feature-builder/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feature-builder/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe software-factory.dev build automation runs a pre-flight check first: a priority-1 or priority-2 bug nobody has picked up stops all new feature work.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/product-improver/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/product-improver/Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Product Improver in the software-factory.dev factory files at most three issues a run, and zero when it finds nothing worthwhile.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/incident-responder/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/incident-responder/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Incident Responder in the software-factory.dev factory updates the conventions document in the same commit as the fix, so the rule that would have prevented the bug is there before the next change.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feedback-digest/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feedback-digest/Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Feedback Digest in the software-factory.dev factory reads new feedback next to seven days of usage data, and files an issue only when the evidence backs it.https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feature-planner/https://www.hackersandwizards.dev/blog/2026/feature-planner/Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe triage automation in the software-factory.dev factory also writes its own backlog when the line runs dry, and routes anything risky through a person first.