StrongDM Software Factory

StrongDM’s “software factory” pitch is basically: push humans out of the code path and move correctness into specs + scenarios + harnesses. The part that sticks is the insistence that humans shouldn’t even review the code—which forces you to build a validation loop you actually trust. I like their reframing from “tests” to “scenarios” as an external holdout set, plus “satisfaction” as a probabilistic measure rather than a green checkmark. The Digital Twin Universe idea (cloning SaaS dependencies to test at huge volume) is a pragmatic answer to reward hacking and rate limits. Even if you don’t buy the extremism, the constraints feel like a useful direction-of-travel: validate behavior, not diffs.