A sneak preview behind an embedded software factory. I suspect rapid application dev is back

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Geoffrey Huntley is building Latent Patterns as a product that is also its own IDE: designer mode edits copy or behavior, then Cursor Cloud Agents ship with a risk gate for schema migrations. He treats code-editing agents as commodities, watches inference from his phone, and says the industry is circling back to 2000-era Access, Delphi, and Visual Basic hyper-personalised RAD rather than SaaS plus Zapier. He prompted first-party analytics, CRM, support, and scheduling into LP, and wants to replace CI/CD with safe live-edits of program logic as inference gets instant.

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• The product is the IDE. Designer mode edits Latent Patterns from inside itself; Launch Agent ships via Cursor Cloud Agents instead of a local editor.
• Code-editing agents are commodities. Huntley does not run his own; he watches inference on his phone, on the loop rather than in it, and only halts on high-risk changes such as schema migrations.
• RAD is back. Hyper-personalised business software used to be Access, Delphi, and Visual Basic; stitching SaaS with Zapier was the detour.
• First-party widgets, prompted in. Analytics, CRM, support, newsletters, and scheduling were built by asking a coding agent for PostHog, Pipedrive, Zendesk, and Calendly rather than integrating those products.
• Kill wait-for-CI. Even 60-second deploys are too slow; the destination is safely live-editing program memory and control flow as inference becomes instant.

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