Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer
Summary
In July 2025 Dex Horthy turned the lights off: an agent software factory where nobody read the code. It fell apart. An issue appeared that no amount of prompting could fix, the site was down, users we
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