Why sell the factory when you can create automated software cloner companies that make millions off of instantly copying promising startups as soon as they come out of stealth?

If you could get a dark factory working when others don't have one, you can make much more money using it than however much you can make selling it

We are not there yet. While there are teams applying dark factory models to specific domains with self-reported success, it's yet to be proven, or generalizable enough to apply everywhere.

Also a measly level 2er. I'm curious what kind of project truly needs an autonomous agent team Ralph looping out 10,000 LOCs per hour? Seems like harness-maxxing is a competitive pursuit in its own right existing outside the task of delivering software to customers.

Feels like K8s cult, overly focused on the cleverness of _how_ something is built versus _what_ is being built.

I have the same question about people who sell "get rich with real estate" seminars.

Codex and Claude Code are these (proto)factories you talk about - almost every programmer uses them now.

And when they will be fully dark factories, yes, what will happen is that a LOT of software companies will just disappear, they will be dis-intermediated by Codex/Claude Code.