System Guardrails for Software Factories - Building Pits of Success for Agents and Humans
In this video we discuss system guardrails and how they're a crucial part of ratcheting up to a software factory. Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2026-10_system-guardrails CTA: My full AI Dotfiles - https://github.com/HAMY-LABS/hamy-labs-code-examples/tree/main/artificial-intelligence - Available to Haminions Members - https://hamy.xyz/haminions Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:35 - System Guardrails 02:30 - Structural Guardrails 04:40 - Mechanical Guardrails 07:30 - Judgement Guardrails 09:45 - Guidance Guardrails 11:50 - Building Software Factories Links: - How I Actually Do Agentic Engineering As A Senior Software Engineer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAbVuwt8Z4 - How to Balance Speed, Quality, and Mental Overhead in Agentic Engineering - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLf5LgSqLM8 - 9 Parallel AI Agents That Review My Code (Claude Code Setup) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGmMItyRaRM About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems. Connect with me: - Website: https://hamy.xyz - Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/ - Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY - BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social - Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/ # Support the Channel If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a HAMINIONs supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions Supporters get: * Full source code access from courses / tutorials * Exclusive discounts on products / courses Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing! Additional ways to support: * YouTube channel members get early access to videos (sometimes weeks before they go public!) * Sponsor posts on the blog / channel: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors * Buy merch from my shop - https://shop.hamy.xyz/