StrongDMMaker of an infrastructure access platform, acquired by Delinea in 2026; its StrongDM AI team publishes its Software Factory work at strongdm.ai.
Profile from en.wikipedia.org, strongdm.ai, checked November 6, 2026.
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Given zero hand-written code and zero traditional review, we required a system that could: Grow from cascades of natural-language specifications Be validated automatically without semantic inspection of source
StrongDMPublished by the organization itself (documentation), no named author
Documentation: Techniques: The Validation Constraint (StrongDM Software Factory), StrongDM AI, February 2026, at The Validation Constraint.
If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
StrongDMPublished by the organization itself (press report), no named author
Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.
We repurposed the word scenario to represent an end-to-end "user story", often stored outside the codebase (similar to a "holdout" set in model training), which could be intuitively understood and flexibly validated by an LLM.
StrongDMPublished by the organization itself (press report), no named author
Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.
We built a Software Factory: non-interactive development where specs + scenarios drive agents that write code, run harnesses, and converge without human review.
StrongDMPublished by the organization itself (press report), no named author
Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.
We built twins of Okta, Jira, Slack, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets, replicating their APIs, edge cases, and observable behaviors.
StrongDMPublished by the organization itself (press report), no named author
Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.