Entry-level software engineer work that largely consisted of "here's the ticket, go implement it" can now probably be replaced by some form of AI or factory.
Noah BlauensteinerAuthor, Xebia articles · Practitioner, 
Xebia
Post: Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories, Xebia articles, August 12, 2026, at If agentic software factories are coding, where does that leave us humans?.
Noah Blauensteiner, Author, Xebia articles. Describes a factory he set up himself; Xebia sells AI consulting and training, so promotional framing is possible.
Xebia sells AI or agent tooling, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).
Exact match. The source uses curly quotes around "here's the ticket, go implement it", which is an allowed normalization. The author is Noah Blauensteiner.
Noah Blauensteiner (Xebia), “Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories”, Xebia articles, 2026-08-12, at If agentic software factories are coding, where does that leave us humans?. https://xebia.com/articles/shining-some-light-in-dark-agentic-software-factories/ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/xebia-entry-level-software-engineer-work-largely-consisted-2026
Connect the factory with your GitHub issues, tag the ones you want it to pick up (choose trivial issues and bugs first), run it, and review the resulting PR and the agents' PR comments.
Noah BlauensteinerAuthor, Xebia articles · Practitioner, Xebia
Post: Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories, Xebia articles, August 12, 2026, at Shining some light on Agentic Software Factories.
The planning agent is responsible for the actual thinking, so it should run on your most powerful model. I initially used Fable for this purpose when it was available, as it excels in UI/UX design. When Fable was no longer accessible, I switched to Opus. Since the planner writes the specifications, the implementation can be handled by a more cost-effective and faster model like Sonnet.
Noah BlauensteinerAuthor, Xebia articles · Practitioner, Xebia
Post: Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories, Xebia articles, August 12, 2026, at What is an Agentic Software Factory?.
Running several agents in parallel burns tokens quickly, so set budgets and keep an eye on spending from day one.
Noah BlauensteinerAuthor, Xebia articles · Practitioner, Xebia
Post: Shining Some Light in Dark Agentic Software Factories, Xebia articles, August 12, 2026, at What is an Agentic Software Factory?.
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