The Dark Factory · Press

Dispatches from the factory floor.

What shipped, what the prover pushed back on, and what changed — written as it happens.

26 August 2026 Ghillie and TheReefink 29 July 2026 The duck factory builds provable software 18 July 2026 The fourteen-pence run 12 June 2026 Congratulations. You’re on the floor. 11 June 2026 The factory wrote the bug and blamed the workers 10 June 2026 The new model wrote the old bug 5 June 2026 The bridges nobody had built 30 May 2026 The cobbler’s children 29 May 2026 A new model arrived this week. Our promise didn’t change. 24 May 2026 Old code, new code, the numbers. 24 May 2026 What 96 per cent means when the spec actually says something 24 May 2026 Where the prover pushes back hardest 20 May 2026 Tens of thousands of lines of safety-critical Fortran, modernised. The audit that halved the number. And the kitten. 20 May 2026 The Senior Service: what the factory borrowed from 480 years of Royal Navy engineering tradition.