Comment by simianwords

I find it a bit suspicious that they don't talk about the amount of human intervention required (apart from writing the RFC, which itself can be done by the agent).

I think this can work if you've set up your codebase with proper AGENTS.md with all the guarantees and low level design you expect. I think some human intervention is required here so that you keep the codebase maintainable - you as the human know the domain and future plan well so your addition is valuable.

I also think its necessary to have some garbage collection - scheduled jobs that look at the codebase and think of ways to tighten it and come up with better design.

Lastly, even if one doesn't take away the full factory, I still think that deployments should be fully automated. In the companies I have seen, deployments are still a cognitive burden - one must look at 100 different dashboards and test in staging, look at logs and so on. This is something the agent can do very well and is best automated. Very few orgs have done this!