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A dark factory runs with the lights off: no human on the floor. Machines take the raw input, do the work, and hand back a finished part. I built one for software. It is called uzi (Uzinele Întunecate, “dark factories”), and it is open source.

You point it at a forge (GitLab, GitHub, or Forgejo), label an issue uzi, and it plans the work, waits for your approval, writes the code under an implement-and-review loop, opens a pull request from a fresh branch, and moves the issue to human review. When a CI pipeline goes red, it diagnoses the failure and opens a fix. The lights are off the whole time. You show up for two decisions: approve the plan, and merge the PR.

Not a fully dark factory, and on purpose: those two decisions stay human, and (unless you opt into autopilot) nothing is written until you sign off on the plan. The lights are off for the work, not for the call to ship.

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