More of a comment than a question:

> Those of us building software factories must practice a deliberate naivete

This is a great way to put it, I've been saying "I wonder which sacred cows are going to need slaughtered" but for those that didn't grow up on a farm, maybe that metaphor isn't the best. I might steal yours.

This stuff is very interesting and I'm really interested to see how it goes for you, I'll eagerly read whatever you end up putting out about this. Good luck!

EDIT: oh also the re-implemented SaaS apps really recontextualizes some other stuff I’ve been doing too…

I’ve been building using a similar approach[1] and my intuition is that humans will be needed at some points in the factory line for specific tasks that require expertise/taste/quality. Have you found that the be the case? Where do you find that humans should be involved in the process of maximal leverage?

To name one probable area of involvement: how do you specify what needs to be built?

[1] https://sociotechnica.org/notebook/software-factory/

I know you're not supposed to look at the code, but do you have things in place to measure and improve code quality anyway?

Not just code review agents, but things like "find duplicated code and refactor it"?