It needs a platform that defines how work moves through the system and how code is generated, reviewed, tested, traced, deployed, and improved when something goes wrong. Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before.
Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before.
LLMs have lowered the barrier to writing code, increased individual output, and pushed organizations to think about software development as a production system.
The standard software development lifecycle and CI/CD practices that have held for decades won't hold up under that pressure.
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Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. LLMs have lowered the barrier to writing code, increased individual output, and pushed organizations to think about software development as a production system. The standard software development lifecycle and CI/CD practices that have held for decades won't hold up under that pressure.
Otherwise all you're doing is putting yet another one-off machine into an empty room and calling it a factory. They often fill in the gap for a lot of the software that many companies wish they could make. AI has also lowered the barrier of entry to creating code, and this is the part everyone focuses on.
The idea of a "software factory" started to solidify over the past year. There are a few forces all hitting at the same time. Companies have always wanted more software than engineers can produce.
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