Building the Agentic Factory

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• From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

  Vibe coding works until you try to trust it twice. The fix was not a better prompt. It was an operating model.

• Building the Factory While Standing Inside It

  I used Hekton to build Hekton. Over one weekend the scaffolding workflow built its own children, and the trail it left was the real product.

• The Tiny Software Department in My Laptop

  The fantasy is that AI does the work. The reality is a small department of named roles, each with one job and a stop condition.

• How Hekton Built Its Own Public Site

  The tempting shortcut was to treat the marketing site as low-stakes and skip the usual rigor. Instead it went through the same classification, governance, and human-apply gate as everything else the factory builds, and that turned out to matter.

• A Lock on a Door That Wasn't There

  The sandbox build's scariest bugs never crashed anything. A firewall rule filtering an interface that didn't exist, an adverse test that passed against a VM that wasn't there, a fix that recurred one layer up. Three containment claims, all confident, all testing nothing.

• The Project That Shipped Nothing Twice

  Twenty-five days of beautiful documentation, zero source files, and a sibling lab that had quietly done the exact same thing. The fix wasn't more planning. It was an honest demotion.

  Part 1 of 9 in From Control Tower to First Product
• Giving the Factory a Spine in a Day

  A session tracker became a task-DAG orchestrator by adding optional fields and one new self-transition event to what already existed, instead of forking a second system, proven the same day against a real 12-task build.

  Part 3 of 9 in From Control Tower to First Product

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