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# Justin McCarthy

## Profile
CTO of [[entity-strongdm|StrongDM]], leading the 3-person engineering team that operates the Level 5 [[concept-dark-factory|Dark Factory]] software development model.

## Public Stance
McCarthy has publicly advocated for AI-driven engineering infrastructure. The specific claim that StrongDM operates with zero human-written or human-reviewed code is **unverified** outside this talk; treat as the speaker's reported summary of a vanguard practice rather than confirmed company policy.