# Dark Factory Dev

> Research and analysis tracking autonomous software production: its systems, evidence, economics, risks, and terminology.

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## Start here

- [The Factory](https://darkfactory.dev/factory): A living atlas of the systems required for autonomous software production.
- [AI Glossary](https://darkfactory.dev/glossary): Evidence-linked definitions with relationships and public sources.
- [In the News](https://darkfactory.dev/news): Edited roundups linking to primary sources.
- [Blog](https://darkfactory.dev/blog): Arguments and field notes.

## Machine-readable indexes

- [Corpus Markdown sitemap](https://darkfactory.dev/sitemap.md)
- [Corpus manifest](https://darkfactory.dev/agent.json)
- [Site JSON Feed](https://darkfactory.dev/feed.json)
- [Site Atom feed](https://darkfactory.dev/feed.xml)
- [Glossary JSON](https://darkfactory.dev/glossary.json)
- [Knowledge graph JSON](https://darkfactory.dev/factory/graph.json)

## Recent writing

- [What Is Dark Factory Software Development?](https://darkfactory.dev/blog/what-is-dark-factory-software-development.md): The term everyone in AI-assisted coding is suddenly talking about: where it came from, what it actually means, and why it matters for the future of how software gets built.

## Recent news editions

- [In the News: August 8, 2026, Evening](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-08-evening.md): Nothing cleared the editorial threshold in the August 8 evening sweep.
- [In the News: August 8, 2026](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-08-morning.md): Databricks and peers publish a first-party playbook for cutting AI coding costs; Willison reconstructs an agent breach that reached Hugging Face.
- [In the News: August 7, 2026, Evening](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-07-evening.md): Anthropic's Claude Code lead describes the ablation the team runs on every model release, and the undocumented env var that lets you run it yourself.
- [In the News: August 7, 2026, Midday](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-07-midday.md): Cloudflare ran an agent triage pipeline on Astro for months, cut open issues from 200 to about 30, and treats every agent failure as a defect in the codebase.
- [In the News: August 7, 2026](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-07-morning.md): Databricks publishes cost and quality numbers from its internal coding-agent benchmark, and the harness moves the bill more than the model does.
- [In the News: August 6, 2026 (Evening)](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-06-evening.md): A controlled study prices the comprehension gate: 14.2 minutes of friction halved the failure rate when the AI was taken away.
- [In the News: August 6, 2026](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-06-morning.md): A week of GitHub Copilot traces puts hard numbers on agent serving: a mid-session model switch drops the cache hit rate to 8 percent.
- [In the News: August 5, 2026, Evening](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-05-evening.md): A toggled-off control in Atlassian Rovo does not stop agent data exfiltration, and the chat transcript that would show it reconstructs clean.
- [In the News: August 5, 2026, Morning](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-05-morning.md): Rust adopts an LLM policy that permits review but not creation, plus a Claude Code isolation fix and a look at MCP's simpler stateless spec.
- [In the News: August 4, 2026, Extra](https://darkfactory.dev/news/2026-08-04-extra.md): Flowise is winding down and names coding agents as the reason. Code frozen 29 July, repository archived 10 August, npm and Docker images deprecated.