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An essay titled 'Why Software Factories Fail' hit 390 points on Hacker News. Author Dex Horthy is no AI skeptic — he built his reputation teaching people to use coding agents. In July 2025 he ran a no-human-reads-the-code factory at his own company; after the third incident, his cofounder spent two weeks rebuilding the codebase by hand. His root cause: in the RL loop that trains coding models, eroding maintainability carries no penalty. A model-training problem, not a skill issue.