Don't build the autonomous AI factory first
Blog post from Upsun
Engineering teams adopting AI agents should progress through Fabien Potencier’s eight-stage maturity model rather than rushing toward fully autonomous development, because individual productivity gains can overwhelm teams that lack shared review processes, governance, and trust. The model ranges from unstructured AI use to an “autonomous factory” of agents operating on shared infrastructure, with each stage addressing distinct challenges around output reliability, security exposure, collaboration, and workflow design. Skipping ahead can create security risks involving untrusted data, real actions, and private information, accelerate technical debt, and leave colleagues burdened by large volumes of insufficiently reviewed agent-generated code. The recommended approach is to grant autonomy incrementally for specific workflows only after repeated successful human-supervised use, similar to how a new employee earns responsibility. Upsun Dispatch’s own development illustrated this process when testing revealed that a pull-request review agent’s consolidated feedback comment was impractical, leading the team to redesign it around inline comments.
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