Nobody has built a software factory
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Nobody has built a software factory
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Re: Nobody has built a software factory
#2I think “software factory” just means automations where bots pick up tickets and spin up code changes. Maybe Stripe has that many well defined bugs but there’s no way it works if you’re building anything remotely complex. There’s just a lot of nuance that agents cannot pick up
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#3I really like the premise of this article because I am intensely interested in learning about software factories. As much as "software factory" is a buzzword, it's still SOTA and it's absolutely going to happen / keep happening in the tech industry over the next few years.
However, I can't read this, not because I refuse to -- I want to -- but because my the cogs in my mind just stop whirring at all of the LLM-isms, my eyes glaze over, and I stop being able to follow what the article is trying to communicate to me. I would love for the OP to call me out and correct me (that they haven't used LLMs to write this).
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#4This is obviously written by AI so I stopped reading at the first headline.
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#5"Software factory" in overused and inaccurate term. Factories have an expensive tooling process and then create the same widget thousands/millions of times. Software can be copied effortlessly once made.
What people are describing is more like a "software kitchen" or "software machine shop".
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#6"software factory" has always been a completely broken metaphor.
Writing software is like building a factory. You try to find the optimal process to do something. This is a creative process and can never be straight forward. Using the software is running the factory.
This won't change with AI, since you never now all requirements beforehand and you always will have to iterate.
The only reason people are selling software factories is that customers like to imagine that this was possible. That a creative, iterative process can be perfectly planable and predictable.
This is just wrong.
Re: Nobody has built a software factory
#7I really like the premise of this article because I am intensely interested in learning about software factories. As much as "software factory" is a buzzword, it's still SOTA and it's absolutely going to happen / keep happening in the tech industry over the next few years. However, I can't read this, not because I refuse to -- I want to -- but because my the cogs in my mind just stop whirring at all of the LLM-isms,…
I was bothered by the writing and fought through it, and carefully went through everything in the article... and you didn't miss anything. It's a tweet expanded to article length.
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#8Software is the factory. The utility is built right in. You can create lossless copies of the product nearly instantly and for free. It's a logistical miracle.
Re: Nobody has built a software factory
#9"Software factory" in overused and inaccurate term. Factories have an expensive tooling process and then create the same widget thousands/millions of times. Software can be copied effortlessly once made. What people are describing is more like a "software kitchen" or "software machine shop".
Artisan software factory
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#10Software is the factory. The utility is built right in. You can create lossless copies of the product nearly instantly and for free. It's a logistical miracle.
It's an economical miracle too. Rare case where producing one sellable product is identical in costs to producing millions.
And international distributuon and scaling is simple too, compared to physical goods.