Software Factory Part 1
I built a software factory, then gave it a real project that could disagree with its work. That project became Rusty Kode.
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Thoughts on GenAI, APIs, .NET, and engineering leadership.
WAIT: Why did my AI Agent keep ignoring one simple rule?
The agent understood the rule, repeated it back and then used the faster bypass again. The fix was not a stronger prompt; it was turning important rules into constraints.
SHAPE: The Bottleneck Moved
GPT-5.6 made a plausible UI prototype arrive quickly. SHAPE became my checklist for deciding whether the product idea deserved that shape at all.
BENCH: The Smaller Model Won
How I stopped judging an AI skill by vibes, built a repeatable evaluation harness, and found that the smaller model won the benchmark.
SMOKE: The Health check was green. That was the Problem.
A reflective look at using AI to turn production smoke testing from a risky manual checklist into a repeatable, evidence-based workflow.