@levelsio Esp. when they share visualizations like this

@levelsio when i see ppl build the 87213th clone of outbid .lol

as someone who has used this term before -- it's a loaded term, but a great analogy the entire sdlc lifecycle was always a factory model, it's just that because of ai, the "theory of constraints" apply much more strongly to the software factory, esp with certain parts of the… Show more

i still don’t know what a software factory is, but i’m highly suspicious it’s some common sense thing from 1960s repackaged to sound cool in 2026 please keep me in the dark about this thanks

when i talk to people with less compute than me

people gravitate towards terms like "software factory" because no one knows how to explain what it is we're doing now our work has changed so drastically in the past ~7 or so months, most of us are grasping for ways to explain our new ways of doing things I prefer the term… Show more