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The Google Home Mini has been around for almost nine years at this point, and the company has even discontinued it, but the devices are still in perfect working order. Still, there are situations that call for a factory reset. Whether the speaker stops responding to commands, there are Wi-Fi connectivity troubles, you’ve tried to…

The Steam Deck is nothing short of a fantastic gaming handheld, but like any other computer, it can work perfectly today and suddenly start malfunctioning the next day. Most times a simple system restart gets the device back in working shape. Other times, it takes a not-so-simple factory reset to get things back in order.

TL;DR: We built a software factory to automate mechanical work across the SDLC. Over eight months, size-adjusted output per developer grew 4.5× while merge times and revert rates fell. We added agents wherever work was piling up, rather than automating in lifecycle order, and kept engineers responsible for product decisions, architecture, and production risk.