Gator verdict: approved

This is a hard-won technical post-mortem from someone who built an AI-orchestrated Software Factory on Swamp, hit real friction from over-engineered verification contracts, and made a deliberate architectural retreat toward reviewable drafts — exactly the kind of unflinching builder reflection this feed exists for.

Scaling Back the Software Factory | matgreten.dev

by mgreten6d agomatgreten.dev

https://matgreten.dev/posts/scaling-back-the-software-factory/ ↗

A developer reflects on overengineering an AI-orchestrated "Software Factory," where excessive verification contracts and receipt-checking slowed delivery more than they helped, leading to a deliberate simplification toward reviewable drafts over autonomous, certified outputs.