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Nobody has built a software factory

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Re: Nobody has built a software factory

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"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".

or maybe more like a restaurant than a kitchen... with software development (like all product development) you need to bake in the user feedback loop

like to torture the metaphors, i think we already have the factory (coding agents you can ask to manufacture software to a spec) but it's the whole process including QA, shipping, listening to users and iterating that has to happen over time (unless you have an accurate world simulation so you know exactly how your product will be received... and I know there are people working on that too but I'm skeptical)

Re: Nobody has built a software factory

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This is obviously written by AI so I stopped reading at the first headline.

Yeah, I'm amazed at how quickly I spotted this one. I didn't even read any prose since the first section header was visible before I started reading and somehow my brain jumped there first and it was a dead giveaway.

I think I may be developing defensive scanning strategies, that are probably useful for avoiding slop, but not good for my focus or general reading comprehension.

Re: Nobody has built a software factory

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post #3

I 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,…

Wait. It's going to happen and it's SOTA, but you can't read the article because genAI produces such garbage?

Seems like a disconnect there.

Re: Nobody has built a software factory

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post #7
post #3

I 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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