“And then you can see a whole bunch of these are merged and then we have some failures that say, hey, we've exceeded max rework count. And that's essentially an escalation to me saying, hey, you should probably look at this yourself as a human because you're responsible for the code that it generates.”
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Shardul Vaidya, Solutions Architect, Data and AI, AWS. Built and runs the factory he demonstrates, so he can speak to how it works, but it is a personal project and not an AWS product, and he also describes how its pieces map onto AWS services that AWS sells.
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Shardul Vaidya (Amazon), “Dark Factories: Verification-First Agentic Engineering”, Background Agents Summit (YouTube), 2026-05-07, at 12:55. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7AvdrxsbaU Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/amazon-exceeded-max-rework-count-escalation-human-2026
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
Context. Vaidya, an AWS solutions architect, is describing and demoing a dark factory (software built and merged by agents) that he built himself, which he calls "my factory"; it is not presented as an AWS product. The talk is from the Background Agents Summit, recorded 7 May 2026 and published by Ona.
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