# The great software factory debate: How do you know it’s working? > Join LinearB and industry experts for a live roundtable on whether the agentic software factory delivers value, and the measurements that settle the argument. _This is a markdown rendering of a live HTML page on linearb.io, generated for AI/LLM consumption — it is not a markdown-only site. To get the full HTML page instead, request this URL with an explicit `Accept: text/html` header (no wildcard, no markdown preference)._ [](https://linearb.io/ "LinearB") [Register now](https://linearb.io/event/the-great-software-factory-debate#event-form) Virtual Workshop # The great software factory debate: How do you know it’s working? Join LinearB and industry experts for a live roundtable on whether the agentic software factory delivers value, and the measurements that settle the argument. Register to join the live roundtable and get first access to the guide when it ships. ## Session 10am PT on August 27, 2026 ## Speakers ![Photo of Dexter Horthy](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_fit,w_1920,h_1920/f_auto/q_auto/v1/dexter-horthy?_a=BAVMn6ID0) ### Dexter Horthy Co-founder and CEO at HumanLayer ![Photo of Zach Lloyd](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_fit,w_1920,h_1920/f_auto/q_auto/v1/zach-lloyd?_a=BAVMn6ID0) ### Zach Lloyd Founder and CEO at Warp ![Photo of Dan Lines](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_fit,w_1920,h_1920/f_auto/q_auto/v1/dan-lines-614x614?_a=BAVMn6ID0) ### Dan Lines Co-founder and COO at LinearB ![Photo of Andrew Zigler](https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/c_fit,w_2560,h_2560/f_auto/q_auto/v1/andrew_zigler_headshot_a1184de4a5?_a=BAVMn6ID0) ### Andrew Zigler GTM Engineer, LinearB ## About the workshop Many engineering leaders are being told to build a software factory: agents that triage, spec, implement, review, and ship, with humans pulled back to the edges. Some argue that agents scattered across individual laptops cannot be governed or tied to ROI, while others point out that current benchmarks only check whether tests pass, so a model that scores better is not necessarily one that keeps your codebase maintainable, and no benchmark for maintainability exists yet. Both viewpoints land on the same missing piece: proof of what the factory shipped and what it cost. That’s why LinearB is excited to host this first-of-its-kind industry discussion about the “context layer” needed to make software factories possible. In this roundtable discussion, experts will explore where the value in an agentic factory shows up. You’ll leave knowing which signals tell you a factory is compounding value and which tell you it is quietly accruing debt, and what to instrument first to see the difference. Register to join live and get first access to the guide on getting visibility into the agentic software factory the moment it ships. What you'll learn How a context layer can close the loop, feeding agents the state of your SDLC, reading back what they cost and what merged, and turning both into roadmap and team-allocation decisions How a fully automated factory can degrade a production codebase in months without instrumentation, from a founder who ran that experiment and shut it down How to find the pull-request flows worth fully automating, and what changes when you move them off laptops and into the cloud Why AI pull requests merge at less than half the rate of manual ones, per our latest benchmarks, and what that does to your factory’s throughput ## Structured data _Machine-readable metadata (JSON-LD) embedded in the page for search/AI context — not content rendered on the page itself._ ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "name": "LinearB", "url": "https://linearb.io/", "logo": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1715628027/logo-mark-lg.svg", "description": "LinearB is the engineering productivity platform that helps engineering leaders prove AI is improving throughput without sacrificing delivery confidence, flow efficiency, or developer experience.", "sameAs": [ "https://www.linkedin.com/company/linearb" ], "award": [ { "@type": "Award", "name": "LinearB is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Developer Productivity Insight Platforms", "dateAwarded": "2026", "awardedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Gartner®" } }, { "@type": "Award", "name": "Great Place to Work Certification", "dateAwarded": "2025-2027", "awardedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Great Place to Work" } }, { "@type": "Award", "name": "America's Best Startup Employers 2025", "dateAwarded": "2025", "awardedBy": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Forbes Magazine" } } ], "hasCertification": [ { "@type": "Certification", "name": "SOC 1 Type 2" }, { "@type": "Certification", "name": "SOC 2 Type 2" }, { "@type": "Certification", "name": "GDPR Compliance certification" }, { "@type": "Certification", "name": "ISO 27001" } ] } ``` ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "The great software factory debate: How do you know it’s working?", "startDate": "2026-08-27T10:00:00.000Z", "location": { "@type": "VirtualLocation", "name": "Online", "url": "https://linearb.io/event/the-great-software-factory-debate" }, "endDate": "2026-08-27T10:45:00.000Z", "description": "Join LinearB and industry experts for a live roundtable on whether the agentic software factory delivers value, and the measurements that settle the argument.", "eventStatus": "EventScheduled", "image": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1785881295/image_91d0b31074.png", "offers": { "@type": "Offer", "url": "https://linearb.io/event/the-great-software-factory-debate", "price": "0", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "seller": { "name": "LinearB" } }, "performer": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dexter Horothy", "image": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1786388761/dexter-horthy.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Zach Lloyd", "image": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1786388761/zach-lloyd.jpg" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dan Lines", "image": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1692824272/uploads/board-dan-lines.webp" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Andrew Zigler", "image": "https://assets.linearb.io/image/upload/v1782145460/andrew_zigler_headshot_a1184de4a5.jpg" } ], "organizer": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "LinearB", "url": "https://linearb.io/" }, "url": "https://linearb.io/event/the-great-software-factory-debate" } ``` ## More on linearb.io ### Footer _Additional links from the site footer, not repeated from the top navigation above._ - [Powered by:](https://linearb.io/)