Inside theSoftware Factory

Inside the software factories of leading engineering teams.

Ramp corporate-card subway advertisements at a New York City station.

Inside Ramp's software factory

Four engineers plus one part-time PM built an in-house background agent that now authors 3 of 4 merged pull requests, and gave it the same tool access as a human engineer.

background-agent·open-access·+6 more
AI-native
The Shopify reception desk at an office, lit in the company's green.

Inside Shopify's software factory

The famous CEO memo wasn't the whole record. Underneath it sits a Slack-native agent coauthoring one in eight merged PRs, a security harness that requires proof by exploit, and a refusal to count AI-authored lines of code.

honest-measurement·background-agent·+7 more
AI-native
A lounge area inside a Stripe office, with a blue accent wall and the Stripe logo.

Inside Stripe's software factory

One-shot end-to-end coding agents on a forked Goose, gated by a hard two-round CI cap and a shared 500-tool internal MCP server.

mcp-gateway·background-agent·+3 more
AI-native
An Uber self-driving test vehicle, fitted with sensor and lidar equipment, parked on a residential street.

Inside Uber's software factory

Six platform layers, an agent registry that makes every agent action traceable to a person, and the most honest published account of what AI measurement got wrong.

mcp-gateway·automated-review·+10 more
AI-native
Interior of a Zalando fulfilment center, with orange crates on a conveyor system.

Inside Zalando's software factory

Agentic engineering across 250+ teams since January 2024, with no mandated tool and a risk classifier that auto-approves a third of pull requests.

multi-provider·mcp-gateway·+8 more
AI-assisted