Zach Lloyd argues that a software factory should be measurable and closed-loop, enabling a team to tune and benchmark it over time and build confidence that agentic development is as scalable and efficient as possible.

“So it's like the agents can do things on their own. And that system, to me, should be something that's very measurable, very closed loop, which over time, you as a team can like tune, measure, benchmark, and just ultimately get confidence that as people switch to this way of doing agentic development, that they're doing it in the most scalable and efficient way.”