This Week in AI: Software Factories, Fable's Return, and the Human-in-the-Loop Debate

This week in AI was shaped almost entirely by one event: the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco. The signal-to-noise ratio at that conference was unusually high — real practitioners debating real constraints, not just keynote optimism. Here is what we took away. The "Software Factory" Framing Is Taking Hold — and It's Not Hype The dominant concept at the conference was the software factory: the idea that AI agents should eventually triage, implement, review, verify, and deploy code in an…