The following article originally appeared on the Vanishing Gradients Substack and is being republished here with the authors’ permission.

Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with tools to check their changes. Warp Factories takes work from tickets and chat through agents, checks, and human review. Agentic software factories are here.

Are you sick and tired of babysitting Codex, Claude Code, or OpenClaw?

Do you have agents that can build features, but still leave you responsible for remembering where they stopped, explaining how each feature fits the project and deciding what happens next? You make progress in each conversation, then development waits for you to return.

It doesn’t have to be this way. A software factory lets you delegate more of that process!

You agree on an outcome, give the system the context and authority it needs, and let it work while you do something else.…