i do use agents for code review but again in a very human-in-the-loop manner; i will ask for a review and then read it over before feeding it to my coding LLM session and asking it to read and iterate on it. as you say, it can be surprisingly tricky to get right, and i like the confidence of the human being the coordinating reviewer.

thanks for all the examples, though - that does give me a lot more context for what people mean by "software factories" (and the assurance that they don't fit the way i work).

also let me plug my work project, an analyser which will scan your code and see where it can safely enable lazy imports (tagged alpha, but we did our best to get a usable release out before 3.15 landed): https://github.com/Facebook/lifeguard

that's an interesting reflection on the nature of open source - in theory the source is there and "the community" could conceivably continue development. especially in the case of something like deno where the people most motivated to keep it alive are already programmers. but the reality is that however distributed an open source project is in theory, in practice it needs a single entity to steward it, otherwise it will die.

hopefully that single entity can be a consortium of companies invested in using the runtime, sort of like opentofu recently.

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