The Software Factory: From Bug Report to Production Code — Davis Palmie, Factory

This talk introduces the concept of a 'software factory' as a system of agents designed to automate the transformation of bug reports and user feedback into production code. It argues that coding itself is not the bottleneck in software development, but rather review, debugging, documentation, and testing. The talk outlines key principles for building such a factory: model-agnosticism, sovereign deployment, and integration across the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). It suggests starting with narrow applications like incident triage and emphasizes the importance of agent readiness, governance, and incremental rollout. The speaker advocates for measuring outcome metrics such as signal-to-production time, interventions, and cost per PR, rather than focusing on token leaderboards.