How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs
BlogHow to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRsHiba FathimaSep 11, 2026TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one. Spotify's Fleetshift shipped in 2023, two years before it had an agent to put in it. Generation scales with spend, review does not, and that asymmetry is the whole design problem.
- ▪BlogHow to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRsHiba FathimaSep 11, 2026TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one.
- ▪Spotify's Fleetshift shipped in 2023, two years before it had an agent to put in it.
- ▪Generation scales with spend, review does not, and that asymmetry is the whole design problem.
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BlogHow to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRsHiba FathimaSep 11, 2026TL;DR An AI software factory is five stages with a gate at each one. The agent is the cheap part. StageWhat it decidesPublished exampleIntakeWhich work is worth startingSentry's Seer scores every incoming issue for actionability firstIsolationWhere the agent runs without collidingStripe boots pre-warmed devboxes in about 10 secondsToolsWhat the agent can reachStripe's Toolshed exposes roughly 500 internal tools over MCPVerificationWhether the change is rightSpotify's LLM judge vetoes about 25% of agent sessionsMerge gateWho is accountableFaire requires two human reviews on agent-authored PRs The short version: every company that made this work built the gates before the fleet.
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