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title: "When do software factories outperform individual IDE agents?"
category: "questions"
status: "active"
sourceLabels: ["Official schedule", "Slide/OCR evidence", "Topic synthesis", "YouTube resource"]
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# When do software factories outperform individual IDE agents?

## Why This Question Matters
The software-factory question asks when agentic work should move from single-developer tools into orchestrated pipelines with review, deployment, memory, and organizational controls.

## Current Working Answer
This page is a first-pass research question, not a final recommendation. Use the linked evidence to refine the answer as more exact session recordings, transcripts, and reviewed slide readings become available.

## Source Evidence
- [[software-factories]] — Topic synthesis
- [[coding-agents]] — Topic synthesis
- [[agent-evaluations]] — Topic synthesis
- [[worldsfair-2026-livestreams]] — YouTube resource
- [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk]] — YouTube resource
- [[youtube-htM02KMNZnk-slides]] — Slide/OCR evidence
- [[2026-06-30-suraj-gupta-warp-building-self-improving-agent-software-factories]] — Official schedule
- [[2026-06-29-zach-lloyd-self-improving-software-factories-the-new-open-source-model]] — Official schedule
- [[2026-06-29-tereza-t-kov-rise-of-the-software-factory]] — Official schedule

## Follow-Up
- Extract specific claims from the linked source pages.
- Separate official schedule evidence from supporting YouTube, transcript, and OCR evidence.
- Convert stable answers into playbooks, harnesses, or evaluations where appropriate.