Scarlett built a factory with five workers: a planner, a builder, a tutorial writer, a reviewer and a previewer. It runs on a persistent remote machine (a Sprite) and, in her words, it is a "transparent, well-lit factory" set against…
In the News: October 27, 2026 (Morning)
A first-person software factory write-up caps retries and uses scripts where no model is needed; a source study of eleven coding harnesses finds none use an agent framework.
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A software factory builder cut cost by capping retries and replacing one worker with a script
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A source study of eleven coding harnesses finds none use an agent framework or embedding retrieval
The authors read the source of eleven coding harnesses, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenHands, Aider, Hermes and OpenCode, plus Databricks' Omnigent as a contrast case. They describe an 83-page paper with 13…