- Author
- Will Larson
- Published
- 20 September 2026
- Kind
- Short personal blog post on a work experiment
- Original
- lethain.com/software-factory-experiment/
- Subject
- Coding with agents
What it is
Will Larson writes the Irrational Exuberance blog and mentions work at Imprint. The post starts with a timeline of the company's agent adoption in 2026. It then describes one experiment.
What it says
- Larson defines the pattern as looping on a broad goal while a harness drives progress.
- Larson describes a skill that checks a Linear project for an RFC and metrics.
- Larson says the skill then updates issues and works unblocked tasks, such as pull requests.
- Larson says the pattern exposed project-goal state the author had been keeping personal.
- Larson says a post-release mode could catch changes in adoption or error rates.
- Larson says the pieces compound only together: metrics access, Linear and an orchestrated harness.
What evidence it gives
The post describes the setup and the author's impression that it works. It includes a dated adoption timeline for the company. It offers no results, metrics or code.
Interests and limits
The post describes the author's own company tooling. The skill runs locally and is not yet in the company harness. The post gives no outcome data. The attribution of the term is the author's guess.