---
title: "Notes from the software factory."
description: "Product updates, engineering deep-dives, and how teams ship with Ara."
url: "https://ara.so/blog"
section: "Company"
---

# Notes from the software factory.

Product updates, engineering deep-dives, and how teams ship with Ara.

## [Rust harness wars: grok-build vs codex](https://ara.so/blog/rust-harness-wars.md)

We cloned xAI's grok-build and OpenAI's codex and read both line by line, twenty subsystems each, to see where two labs building the same coding agent actually diverge.

Jul 2026 · research

## [From issue runs to software factories](https://ara.so/blog/from-issue-runs-to-software-factories.md)

How Ara shapes the loop from incoming signal to a verified PR and updated repo memory.

Jun 2026 · product