Latent Space · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Zach Lloyd argues that the foundation of a self-improving software factory is defining workflows, repositories, and MCPs declaratively as code, comparing the approach to Terraform. This allows version control, branching, and automated pull requests from coding agents to improve the factory itself.
“At the bottom of the stack... I think it's really foundational and important that you define your factory declaratively as code. So again, the analogy is like, Terraform here.”
“And then you get the added benefit that's extremely cool, where because it's in code, coding agents can suggest improvements to it.”