It's not uncommon. It's more common at large companies. For example, Google calls theirs "Clients in the Cloud".

You only need about 4 upvotes in the first 20 minutes or so to get on the front page. It's the same for every story.

As someone who was on that team for a long time, we took that into consideration, but it was never specifically for that. There was some stuff the Servo team would have liked us to have implemented that we didn’t.

They said at the time that Go let them keep the overall structure of the code, that is, they weren't trying to do a re-implementation from scratch, more of a port, and so the port was more straightforward with Go.

From a year ago https://www.vice.com/en/article/telling-chatgpt-please-and-t...

Most reporting I've seen rhymes with this, from last year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/english-s...

Recently, Claude gives you these options when asking you to accept a plan:

  Would you like to proceed?

  > 1. Yes, clear context and auto-accept edits (shift+tab)
    2. Yes, auto-accept edits
    3. Yes, manually approve edits
    4. Type here to tell Claude what to change

So the default is to do it in a new context.

If you examine what this actually does, it clears the context, and then says "here's the plan", points to the plan file, and also points to the logs of the previous discussion so that if it determines it should go back and look at them, it can.

Yes, its basically another way to compact context, means it there is less chance start compacting part way through the plan.

This is the fundamental tension in this story, yes.

Not exactly the same thing, but I know of at least two professors that would try to list their cats as co-authors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov

That is great, thank you!

More of a comment than a question:

> Those of us building software factories must practice a deliberate naivete

This is a great way to put it, I've been saying "I wonder which sacred cows are going to need slaughtered" but for those that didn't grow up on a farm, maybe that metaphor isn't the best. I might steal yours.

This stuff is very interesting and I'm really interested to see how it goes for you, I'll eagerly read whatever you end up putting out about this. Good luck!

EDIT: oh also the re-implemented SaaS apps really recontextualizes some other stuff I’ve been doing too…

This was an experiment that Justin ran: one person fresh out of college, and another with a long, traditional career.

Even though all three of us have very different working styles, we all seem to be very happy with the arrangement.

You definitely need to keep an open mind, though, and be ready to unlearn some things. I guess I haven’t spent enough time in the industry yet to develop habits that might hinder adopting these tools.

Jay single-handedly developed the digital twin universe. Only one person commits to a codebase :-)

> "I wonder which sacred cows are going to need slaughtered"

Or a vegan or Hindu. Which ethics are you willing to throw away to run the software factory?

I eat hamburgers while aware of the moral issues.