Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory
THE SO WHAT
Funding for an "autonomous, self-improving software factory" is a bet that the bottleneck in AI-accelerated engineering is incident response, security, and cost control—not code generation. If you’re scaling AI in your SDLC, start instrumenting incidents, vulnerabilities, and token spend as first-class metrics, or you’ll be flying blind while this new tooling layer matures around you.
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