Software Factories Meet Production

AI coding is quickly being productionized through software factories. But building a reliable software factory is still surprisingly difficult and fraught with challenges. How do you keep a fleet of agents productive instead of idle? When do you run agents locally versus in the cloud? How do you secure them, when do you bring a human in the loop, and how do you catch and learn from failures? Datadog, Cleric, and the AAIF are teaming up to bring you a night of practitioner talks. Three engineers will each take one component of their factory and walk through what it took to build: the design they started with, what broke, and where they ended up. Orchestration, review, verification, security. Each talk covers at least one. Each talk is 7 minutes with a few minutes of questions. Short and specific, think failure modes, war stories, and lessons learned. Speakers Dex Horthy, Humanlayer founder: Software factory design patterns Geoffrey Oxberry, Senior Software Engineer at Datadog: Building performance tests into a software factory Diptanu Choudhury, Tensorlake founder Willem Pienaar, Cleric co-founder & CTO Agenda 6:00 Doors, pizza, mingling 6:30 Welcome 6:40 Lightning talks, 7 minutes plus 5 minutes of Q&A each 7:10 Open floor, speakers stay for questions 8:00 Out Details Wednesday, September 9, 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Datadog office in San Francisco. Space is limited and we read every registration, so tell us what you're building with agents!