Blank actors: a software factory team that learns its jobs by email
In my previous post I built a small software factory out of Unix mail: a builder and a verifier, each one a Unix user who gets "You have new mail", plus a post office. I finished that post with two problems still open. The verifier could only judge what the builder decided to describe in an email, because the two shared no workspace. And the roles were prompt files that I had written into the repository, so the builder and the verifier were only what I had told them to be. This post is about the third proof of concept. The question for me was simple: can a factory come out of blank actors plus an authority, instead of hard-coded roles? Every actor starts with the same few lines. It is an engineer on a team, it has an authority, and mail is how it works. What it is responsible for, it learns from the human, by email. As in the first post, I did this together with an AI agent (Claude Code). In my January post about AI (in Spanish) I wrote that I can't accept something...