--- title: Dark Factory: OpenClaw Ships Faster Than You Can Read... description: Vincent Koc, a core maintainer of OpenClaw, describes how the project achieves extreme development velocity — up to 3,000 commits per day — using what he calls... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dark-factory-openclaw-ships-faster-than-you-can-read-the-diff-vincent-koc-openclaw-ekgqnukrv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Dark Factory: OpenClaw Ships Faster Than You Can Read the Diff — Vincent Koc, OpenClaw | daily.dev og:description: Vincent Koc, a core maintainer of OpenClaw, describes how the project achieves extreme development velocity — up to 3,000 commits per day — using what he calls... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/dark-factory-openclaw-ships-faster-than-you-can-read-the-diff-vincent-koc-openclaw-ekgqnukrv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EKgqnUkrV.png og:image:alt: Dark Factory: OpenClaw Ships Faster Than You Can Read the Diff — Vincent Koc, OpenClaw og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Dark Factory: OpenClaw Ships Faster Than You Can Read the Diff — Vincent Koc, OpenClaw **[AI Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/aidotengineer)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Vincent Koc, a core maintainer of OpenClaw, describes how the project achieves extreme development velocity — up to 3,000 commits per day — using what he calls a 'dark factory' approach. He runs 10–20 parallel AI coding agent 'swim lanes' simultaneously, acting as a factory manager rather than a hands-on coder. Key insights include: organizing agents by task type (CI, features, bugs), using Git worktrees (with caveats), building reusable 'skills' files for agents, relying on over-fitted unit tests as a safety net during massive refactors, and developing intuition for when an agent is going off the rails. He argues that managing AI agents at scale requires soft skills similar to people management, and that 2026 will shift focus from maximizing token usage to token efficiency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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