Verified, but not real: my software factory meets its first customer
In my previous post I built a team of blank actors: engineers that start with the same few lines of instructions and learn their jobs by email from an authority. A builder and a verifier came out of that, and a fizzbuzz went from request to signed push to PASS to report. I ended that post with three questions: what is the right size of thing for one agent to own, how does a factory add capacity, and how good must the starting point be. They were questions for a later run, on a real job. This post is about the fourth proof of concept, and that real job. I have a real problem at home: my family needs a shared list of chores, something my wife, my kid and I can all add to and tick off, and I want to host it myself on an old Android TV box I no longer use. The question for me was: can the factory, changed as little as possible, take that on, with me as the customer, more than one builder at once, and an AI in the lead's chair instead of me? As in the previous posts, I did this tog...