StrongDM: “We built twins of Okta, Jira, Slack, Google Docs, Google Dri…”

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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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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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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