Trying the Software Factory Pattern
Trying the Software factory pattern.Published on September 20, 2026. management (221)One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. If new work is identified, it adds those issues to the project.
- ▪Trying the Software factory pattern.Published on September 20, 2026. management (221)One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them.
- ▪I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more.
- ▪If new work is identified, it adds those issues to the project.
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| Original publisher | Lethain |
| Canonical URL | https://lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:27:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-20T18:13:46.875Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-20T18:13:46.875Z |
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Trying the Software factory pattern.Published on September 20, 2026. management (221)One of the interesting challenges of the AI ecosystem in 2026 is that new, effective patterns emerge faster than I can adopt them. I’ll find a handful, get back to work, and realize a month later that I’d missed four or five more. The adoption cycle for Imprint this year has been something like:January: get every engineer onto Claude Code every single dayMarch: ok, let’s also get everyone else onto Claude Code or Claude Cowork every single dayApril: local development is bottlenecked on checkout and worktree model, instead create ~10 local workspaces which each have an independent checkout of every repository, and operate at the workspace level, not at the repository level, so it can generate…
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