Building Syntasso's AI-Powered "Daylight" Factory
Building Syntasso's AI-Powered "Daylight" FactoryDerik Evangelista 2 hours ago7 min readWhat happens when you move beyond AI-assisted coding and start handing more of the software delivery process to AI agents?Our engineering team, which is building Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE), set out to find out. We built an agentic software development workflow around our existing engineering practices, put it to work on a substantial real-world refactoring, and set ourselves an ambitious target: delivering one epic per week.The results surprised us. AI dramatically accelerated delivery, but it also changed what engineers needed to understand, review, and ultimately own.
- ▪Building Syntasso's AI-Powered "Daylight" FactoryDerik Evangelista 2 hours ago7 min readWhat happens when you move beyond AI-assisted coding and start handing more of the software delivery process to AI agents?Our engineering team, which is
- ▪We built an agentic software development workflow around our existing engineering practices, put it to work on a substantial real-world refactoring, and set ourselves an ambitious target: delivering one epic per week.The results surprised u
- ▪AI dramatically accelerated delivery, but it also changed what engineers needed to understand, review, and ultimately own.
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| Original publisher | Syntasso.io |
| Canonical URL | https://www.syntasso.io/post/building-syntasso-s-ai-powered-daylight-factory |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:52:31 +0000 |
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Building Syntasso's AI-Powered "Daylight" FactoryDerik Evangelista 2 hours ago7 min readWhat happens when you move beyond AI-assisted coding and start handing more of the software delivery process to AI agents?Our engineering team, which is building Syntasso Kratix Enterprise (SKE), set out to find out. We built an agentic software development workflow around our existing engineering practices, put it to work on a substantial real-world refactoring, and set ourselves an ambitious target: delivering one epic per week.The results surprised us. AI dramatically accelerated delivery, but it also changed what engineers needed to understand, review, and ultimately own. Here’s what we learned building what we now call our daylight factory, and how we're handing off even more work to AI agents.
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