AnalysisDevelopersJuly 23, 2026
Why an AI agent software factory failed: Dex Horthy post-mortem
In July 2025, Dex Horthy shut down his agent software factory after an unfixable issue caused a site outage. He had stopped reading the codebase three months prior and realized no amount of prompting could resolve the failure.
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