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Re:Ask HN: What does your agentic software dark factory look... by aosaigh on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:43AM (#47921461)
What is a dark factory?
Re:Ask HN: What does your agentic software dark factory look... by geremiiah on Monday April 27, 2026 @10:41AM (#47922269)
A robotics factory that is fully automated. Hence "dark" because they can just turn the lights off and let the machines run 24/7 in the dark.

I guess in this instance it means some kind of harness and framework that lets models build without supervision.

Re:Ask HN: What does your agentic software dark factory look... by ElFitz on Monday April 27, 2026 @01:26PM (#47924543)
That’s pretty much it. I’d say minimal supervision, and I can’t say whether or not it is doable or desirable, but maybe I’m not bullish enough. Or too much.

There’s a joke about dark factories, by the way:

> The Factory of the Future Will Have Only Two Employees, a Man and a Dog.

> - The human feeds the dog.

>- The dog makes sure no one touches the equipment.