How to Build an AI Software Factory: Agents That Open, Review, and Merge PRs

The article defines an AI software factory as a queue-driven system that isolates agents, automatically verifies code, and presents only compiled, tested changes to a human merge gate, preventing review overload. It outlines five stages and required architecture, noting that a single engineer with an agent can generate pull requests faster than a team can review them, as demonstrated by Stephen Toub’s nine PRs from a plane, with seven merged.