What I’m suggesting is a practical operating model for scaling agentic engineering. There’s inner and outer loops. The inner loop is where the work is done. Loops are designed to be as independent as possible. Put all quality assurances and verification inside the loop. Once you’ve designed and validated the loop itself, the only thing you have left to do is to grant autonomy by putting in place a back-pressure mechanism that acts to control the rate at which the loop is run and its scope of operation. And put humans in their rightful place, on the right decisions. Don’t treat understanding as a hand-off or a release gate but rather as a point of decision where humans are primed to provide their insight. And then for every artifact that exists and is fed back into production and into new teams and engineers, leave behind better artifacts.
Build the factory; keep the lights on; make work legible, verifiable, owned.