#dark-factory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dark-factory, aggregated by home.social.
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“The future is dark, which is, on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think”*…
Further (and in some ways, contra) to yesterday’s post, Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo, Tyler Dunn, Hugh Scott-Douglas, and Jay Springett ponder one extrapolation of AI…
Imagine the most extreme possible factory: a factory that drives itself, a factory that determines its own objectives and optimizes itself to accomplish them. It is something like a fully automated firm, a company with no people inside, a recursively self-optimizing body that decides what to make, how to make it, and why. This is a very special kind of factory, a factory built with the intention of producing something strictly in excess of its creator’s abilities, something so productive, so efficient, and so capable that it exceeds any possibility of its prescription in advance, something that belongs to the set of possible factories that are, at present, unthinkable. How might one build such a thing? What would it mean to steer or govern such a thing? We call this factory a superdark factory, a factory whose insides churn too quickly to comprehend, whose logics branch into tangles too dense to reconstruct, and whose standards of performance are too ephemeral to direct. We believe that it is possible to build such a factory now, with existing tools, should one decide to do so.
Toward such an end, we propose the dark stack—a collection of design principles an architect could use to bring about such a factory and, further, to contribute to this factory’s ongoing governance after its initialization, all while remaining unable to understand almost anything about it. The most significant intervention available to an architect building a superdark factory with the dark stack is a single committed move, made before the factory is ever turned on, that sets four key principles into motion: (1) an array of structural primitives that enable the factory to learn; (2) a versioning regime that measures what the factory does rather than what it is; (3) an adversarial evaluation layer that serves as the factory’s primary sensory organ; and (4) a charter that functions as a negotiated site of governance, cowritten with the factory itself. After this initial move is complete, the dark stack’s most consequential implications involve the foreclosure of human control from factory design and the subsequent instatement of the human architect as a game-theoretical strategic player engaged with the emerging totality of production…
The most extreme possible automated factory- how would you build it? How would you manage/govern it? “The Superdark Factory,” from https://x.com/antikythera_xyz and @mitpress.bsky.social.
See also: “What is a black box? A computer scientist explains what it means when the inner workings of AIs are hidden” (from whence, the image above)
* Widely attributed to Virginia Woolf’s private journal
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As we feel our way forward, we might recall that it was on this date in 1716 that the first lighthouse in America, Boston Light, was lit on Little Brewster Island, marking the entrance to the Boston, Massachusetts harbor. (Canada’s first lighthouse, the Louisbourg Lighthouse, located on Lighthouse Point at the entrance to Louisbourg Harbour on Cape Breton Island, was lit in 1734.)
During the American Revolution, the original lighthouse was held by British forces and was attacked and burnt on two occasions by American forces. As the British forces withdrew in 1776, they blew up the tower and completely destroyed it.
The lighthouse was eventually reconstructed in 1783, to the same 75-foot height as the original tower. The reconstruction is the second oldest working lighthouse in the United States (after Sandy Hook Lighthouse in New Jersey) and is the only lighthouse still actively staffed by the U. S. Coast Guard (despite its automation in 1998).
A 1729 rendering (source) #AI #artificialIntelligence #BostonLight #culture #darkFactory #factory #history #lighthouse #manufacturing #philosophy #politics #Technology -
"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."
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"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."
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"You can adopt coding agents without making the Dark Software Factory your platonic ideal, I promise."
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#DarkFactory in der SoftwareEntwicklung - nicht mehr ganz so weit weg. Kostet natürlich auch einiges. Aber schon interessant zu sehen, wo die Reise hingeht
https://slides.com/johann-peterhartmann/dark-factories#/0/13
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LEAKY AI-DELEGATION PROBLEM
Many software engineers' pain points in AI-augmented development I am hearing about seem to stem from what I am calling the Leaky AI-Delegation problem:
- We still need all the skills to review the output, but we lose the practice to maintain them, and Jrs to learn them
- While the delegation is stripping away our visibility & control of the code
- Yet the final accountability still rests on us
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"If you're fearful of LLMs producing slop, or building a system that nobody understands, these are the techniques that the best software engineering teams have used for decades to mitigate that risk with humans."
#ai #softwareengineering #developerexperience #lean #darkfactory #productivity
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Which style of AI-Augmented Development best suits your organisation, product, codebase, or task?
This landscape of AI-Assisted Development, ranging from Human-driven to AI-Driven, provides a good starting point for this conversation => https://www.smharter.ai/blog/2026/05/14/coding-with-ai-2-alternative-philosophies/
#TechTrends #AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI
#AICoding #VibeCoding #DarkFactory
#AIAssistedCoding #AIAugmentedCoding
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Wer meint, dass man "mal schnell" eine Software-Dark-Factory machen kann, weil man mit ClaudeCode seinen eigenen Shop auf Localhost geschrieben und gestartet hat ...
Ich würde ein Gespräch mit Johann-Peter Hartmann & Björn Schotte empfehlen. Nicht nur weil der Vortrag unterhaltsam und für Techies als auch Management verständlich ist, sondern - und *vor allem*:
Weil es glaubwürdig ist.
Weil man sieht, durch welche Stufen man sich quälen *wird*, wenn man das "mal schnell" selber machen wird.
(Weil ich mich selber in gewissen Stufen wiedergefunden habe *hüstel)
Weil aus den Fehlern von anderen lernen will ... (also ich zumindest)TL;DR: wie immer ist es nicht GANZ so einfach (aber das Event war echt cool)
https://mayflower.de/wein-und-wissen/wein-wissen-dark-software-factory-muc/
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*If you have a "Software Dark Factory" where all the software is written by AIs, how do you test that software to see if it really works? #DarkFactory *With vast armies of fake human users, of course simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/7/s...
How StrongDM’s AI team build s... -
Centinaia di robot assemblano smartphone nell'oscurità totale mentre milioni di operai guardano i loro posti di lavoro svanire. In Cina (ma non solo lí, le "dark factories" producono un dispositivo ogni tre secondi senza intervento umano, trasformando la manifattura in una danza silenziosa di macchine che non dormono mai.
#darkfactory #automazione #futuroprossimo #produzione #fabbriche #manifattura
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#纽约客 有篇关于机器取代人力的报道《欢迎来到黑暗工厂》给我留下非常深的印象，可以作为这系列议题的讨论材料之一
Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/23/welcoming-our-new-robot-overlords
由 #机器之心 提供的汉语翻译： https://www.jiqizhixin.com/articles/2017-10-18-13 -
#TIL "The concept of ‘Dark Factory’ which essentially means running a fully automated factory with minimal or no humans onsite […]"
source: https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/strategy-and-management/how-covid-19-will-impact-digital-transformation/75047563 #DarkKitchen #DarkFactory