The AI Factory Grind

This is a continuation of the saga from my last post: I Upgraded My AI Factory I built Seneschal as a way step lightly into the world of Harness Engineering and AI Orchestration by building my own factory. I hired Claude to work in my little factory and I've been using it for my personal projects for a few weeks. I have some insights I'd like to share on the process as I iterate and improve the system. The Stripe InspirationI was inspired to go down this path after reading about Stripe's Minions and their AI pipeline. The fact that they handle over 1300 PR's a week was impressive and while I was obviously not going for the same scale, I wanted to see if I could apply this concept at a smaller level to learn more about the process because 1) building things is fun and 2) I feel like this represents the fundamental shift in software engineering we've all been warned about1. One important distinction I didn't mention much in my previous posts (and something that's become much more…