July 9, 2026  1:05 PM EDT – 1:35 PM EDT
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Life in the fast lane - building a dark factory code generator

Code generation has stopped being a tool upgrade and started being an operating model change. When code costs nothing, the bottleneck moves somewhere else — and most of what engineering leaders think they know about shipping software needs rethinking. Harper Reed shares what a year of running a team on ~100% AI-generated code has taught him about workflows, guardrails, org design, and the choice every leader is about to face.
CEO
2389 Research, Inc