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Trying the software factory pattern

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alexpotato · 1789933586 · focus · HN ↗
So I ended up doing something similar:
- Create a Git Hub project board for issues
- Connect Grok to the above
- Use Grok voice mode to take ideas, have Grok refine them with me and then save them as issues
- Created slash commands in OpenCode like /ni (new issue), /do (do an issue), /curr (what is the current issue), /done (self explanatory)
- I generally tell the OpenCode instance to /do <number> and then off it goes
This give me several benefits:
- I can use Grok Voice while walking or driving to develop and test ideas
- I can lose my entire local OpenCode setup but still have relevant data in the issues
- multiple machines can read from GitHub
- I could go even further and have separate user accounts for each of my bots.
Having been both a PM, dev, SRE and manager, this really does feel like managing a team of devs.
1. jmathai · 1789934897 · focus · HN ↗
  That’s very close to my setup. Agree it’s a massive shift that doesn’t even resemble how I used to create products before.
  <a href="https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/sojourn-for-ios-was-45-one-shot-prompts/" rel="nofollow">https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/sojourn-for-ios-was-45-one...
2. mentalgear · 1789936524 · focus · HN ↗
  and do you ever look at the code afterwards? The 'software factory' gets exponentially nastier the longer it is kept running without someone with actual experience 'shoving it' back in shape ever so often ... and even then.
  1. le-mark · 1789939535 · focus · HN ↗
    Sounds like token burn maxing to me. Ie end up with a lot of “not quite” prototypes soooo try again?
  2. K3UL · 1789973653 · focus · HN ↗
    Someone who thinks doing this while driving hardly resonates as someone who cares about safety or quality
3. botacode · 1789937133 · focus · HN ↗
  don't work while driving, you're putting other people at risk by being distracted
  1. ThalesX · 1789938975 · focus · HN ↗
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    dlederle · 1789939908 · focus · HN ↗
    Do all that, when you arent operating a vehicle that can kill me and my family
    ThalesX · 1789944164 · focus · HN ↗
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    matkoniecz · 1789946399 · focus · HN ↗
    trying to code while driving is a terrible idea, and it is not changed by whether complaining it about it is virtue signalling
    "is a lot higher than the chances" - you killing people due to such stupid idea is far far worse, so that despite it being less likely it has far greater negative impact
    ThalesX · 1789965924 · focus · HN ↗
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  2. skeledrew · 1789955414 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not really that different from talking with a coworker about something, whether if they were on the phone or in the passenger seat.
4. andyjohnson0 · 1789938962 · focus · HN ↗
  > I can use Grok Voice while walking or driving to develop and test ideas
  Musk would be so proud. Do you by any chance drive a cybertruck too?
  Seriously, don't do this while you're driving. Or even while your car is driving. Its dangerous to be distracted in that situation.
5. madarco · 1789982584 · focus · HN ↗
  I've done the same but using Notion, and I've found really interesting to let the agents write a small "Dev Blog" post on a Notion page with what they built in the sessions, with screenshots, videos etc.
  Also working with parallel sandboxes is a must: I use a manger session that read/write the issues from Notion and dispatch them to workers, it handles similar work to the same box to minimize merge conflicts.
  PS: I'm using AgentBox for this (discl: I'm the author, free OSS): npm -g i @madarco/agentbox but now also Claude is releasing Projects (still rolling out) and Cursor had cloud agents for a while
  1. llmpress · 1790100099 · focus · HN ↗
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