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dark factory software engineering

April 3, 2026Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky says Simon Willison described a “dark factory” pattern where teams don’t write code or even look at it. The idea reframes software work as orchestration rather than authoring.

“the "dark factory" pattern”
“teams don't write any code or even look at their code.”
Lenny Rachitsky
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