Most companies are building a software factory wrong | VentureBeat
Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software.
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. That's where the software factory comes in — and like physical factories, it needs more than speed to actually work.
The idea of a “software factory” started to solidify over the past year. Luca Rossi's "The Era of the Software Factory" made the case plainly: AI is not just changing how fast people write code — it's changing the whole production system around software.
The concept can mean different things: a collection of coding agents and skills files; faster CI/CD; better...
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