## (owner-prompted: software factory category)

- Owner request in chat: introduce a Software factory category and decide whether disler/super-simple-software-factory belongs there; it was placed as the founding member [big-pickle]
- Placement: a new Software factory category rather than Hybrid execution, Skills, or Spec-driven development, because SSSF's center is a repeatable code-owned SDLC pipeline packaged as a skill [big-pickle]
- super-simple-software-factory: created the note (764 stars and 189 forks since 2026-08-02, MIT, the code-owns-the-loop thesis, the pi-only coding agent, the no-sandbox/no-merge/no-approval gap) [big-pickle]
- software-factory-feature-matrix: created as a single-column scaffold with ten rows; _index.md lists the category and the matrix [big-pickle]

## (owner-prompted: software factory alternatives)

- Owner follow-up: find other software-factory-style projects and assess credibility; two credible members cleared the bar [big-pickle]
- fluent: added as the self-improving member (84 stars since 2026-07-10, Apache-2.0, the Observations-to-Merge-Candidate loop, AWS Fargate remote execution, the Learner writing reusable Expertise) [big-pickle]
- har: added as the harness-style member (82 stars since 2026-06-28, v1.0.0, the .har contract, per-agent worktree/port/database slots, the Mission Control dashboard) [big-pickle]
- software-factory-feature-matrix: rebuilt from the scaffold to three columns (SSSF, Fluent, HAR) with the who-owns-the-loop thesis; lightspeed stayed out as general orchestration, and determinagent, agentic-software-factory, ai-factory, and Takk8IS/software-factory did not clear the bar [big-pickle]

## (owner-prompted: people and publications category)

- Owner request in chat: introduce a category that collects the websites and people shaping the domain; a full seed plus companion matrix was confirmed via two clarifying questions [big-pickle]
- Placement: a new People and publications category, because the five members are cross-cutting carriers of signal who do not fit any tool category [big-pickle]
- Created five notes (simon-willison, latent-space, the-pragmatic-engineer, steve-yegge, andrej-karpathy) and a feature matrix segmented on the focus axis, the missing enterprise-hands-on cell named as the scaffold [big-pickle]
- _index.md lists the category and the matrix; queue.md records the new category as done [big-pickle]

## (daily refresh)

- vscode-copilot: documented the April 22 2026 self-serve pause now covering Business and Enterprise [glm-5.3-flash]
- Added fx (vercel-labs/fx): the embed-first thesis, the three-credential model, native AGENTS.md, the fx acp server, the AI-Gateway routing caution, 2,589 stars, v0.0.7 of 2026-08-29 [glm-5.3-flash]
- harness-feature-matrix: extended from 13 to 14 columns in the same run; agentic-coding-tools-landscape gains the fx line [glm-5.3-flash]

## (people and publications expansion)

- Owner request in chat and the standing category directive both call for building out the category; six members added to fill the open bands [big-pickle]
- Added hamel-husain (evaluation-and-verification), lilian-weng (durable research reference), chip-huyen (systems survey), nathan-lambert (model and post-training), deeplearning-ai-andrew-ng (education and on-ramp), ai-jason (video practitioner) [big-pickle]
- people-and-publications-feature-matrix: extended from five to eleven columns, re-segmented onto five focus bands, the enterprise-hands-on cell remaining the scaffold; _index.md updated and the matrix one-liner bumped from five to eleven voices; queue.md left untouched [big-pickle]

## (caleb writes code added)

- Owner request in chat names the channel directly; caleb-writes-code added as the twelfth member, filling the video release-explainer slot next to AI Jason [big-pickle]
- Recorded identity, join date 2025-03-16, scale (105,664 subscribers, about 6.3M views, 114 videos, as of 2026-08-29), and about twice-weekly uploads; the cautions note that 11 of the last 15 upload descriptions carry a sponsor or affiliate read, with no HN threads and no substantive Reddit discussions [big-pickle]
- people-and-publications-feature-matrix: extended from eleven to twelve columns; _index.md lists it and the matrix one-liner bumped from eleven to twelve voices [big-pickle]