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Based on 'Why Software Factories Fail', agent coding loops degrade rapidly when feedback is unverified and context is unbounded.
In autonomous software factories, agent pipelines stream tasks across architecture, coding, review, and continuous integration stages. When context window retention drops, coder memory decay climbs to eighteen percent, generating corrupted PRs that bypass weak automated reviews. Without strict verification checkpoints, silent regressions reach twenty-eight percent while factory deployment yield collapses to forty-two point five percent. Selecting Gated Observability or enabling strict context pruning halts cascade defects, recovering clean merge yield above eighty percent.