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What Is an AI Software Factory? Lessons from 3 Client Deploymentscamplight.net

What makes the best AI software factories work? Compare seven essential capabilities, informed by Camplight's experience across three client deployments.

8 points•altras•8 days ago•3 comments•
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3 comments

cbg08 days ago
If the goal is to write a blog post to advertise the product, I'd ask the LLM to summarize the content a bit, as there's quite a lot of structure for very little content.

I also have a feeling that the "40k to 250k EUR" to build this is a bit exaggerated. One ChatGPT/Claude subscription and the following can put together the described system, perhaps with fewer bells and whistles:

- OpenAI Agents API

- GitHub

- CI/CD

- identity system

- MCP/tools

- an eval suite

- a small UI

altras8 days ago
Everything nowadays boils down to one claude/codex subscription :D Point taken, though, on the structure.

for one of our clients the amount of plumbing involved required 2 people working and tinkering for months with max subscriptions. I guess we're in the era of buildout and probably in 2027 the cost of software factories will be down to zero.

zihotki7 days ago
And don't underestimate the complexity and importance of eval suite. It's a lot of work to get a good dataset. Your agents are as good as your dataset is.

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