If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement
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Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.
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StrongDM, “How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code”, Simon Willison's Weblog, 2026-02-07. https://simonwillison.net/2026/feb/7/software-factory/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/strongdm-haven-t-spent-least-1-000-tokens-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.
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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.
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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.
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Press report: How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code, Simon Willison's Weblog, February 7, 2026.
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