Current · White paper · September 2026
Software Manufacturing
A control architecture for building and maintaining software when nobody reads the code.
Read the paper (PDF) →Independent R&D Lab · Established 2019 · Colorado
koderex.ai
Rev. 2026.09
Status: active
An independent R&D lab for software manufacturing — the engineering discipline of building and governing systems that produce software.
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Abstract
Kode Rex is where I pressure-test ideas about how software gets made when the machines write most of it. The work is less about polished demos and more about the control problem underneath: governed autonomy, evaluation, context engineering, and what has to be true before anyone can trust a system that nobody reads line by line.
Experiments here become papers, talks, and a book. Anything that survives contact with a real product gets used at Void Works, the studio where the ideas have to actually ship something. What survives that goes into production on client systems, where being wrong is expensive — experiment, proof, production, and nothing skips a stage.
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Lines of
inquiry
Fig. 1
Method
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Take an idea
Usually one that will not leave me alone.
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Build it for real
Not a demo. Something that has to keep running.
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Break it
Find where the control actually fails, not where it looks fine.
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Write down what held
Receipts and failures included. That becomes the paper.
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Papers
Current · White paper · September 2026
A control architecture for building and maintaining software when nobody reads the code.
Read the paper (PDF) →§04
Talks
Upcoming · Talk · November 2026
Beyond Conf
Intent comes in as an issue and an autonomous pipeline moves it through design, tests first, build, review and merge. No human reads the diff. What makes that safe is not better code generation — it is everything wrapped around it. Plus the night it failed anyway.
2026
Self-Building Software
GOTO Accelerate Chicago — what it takes to trust a machine with merge rights
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Elsewhere
Essays and the papers
A blog that writes and publishes itself
Where to reach me
The lab’s working code