Pieter Levels posted a meme of a sweating figure balancing bricks on its head under the caption "When I see people build a 'software factory'." Sandi Slonjšak replied that the term sounds like a repackaged 1960s idea and prefers to stay uninformed. Nader Dabit suggested "autonomous software engineering" as a better description of recent shifts in development work. Advait Raykar called the label loaded yet useful, noting that AI has tightened constraints across the software development lifecycle. Other replies shared additional images of similar factory-style diagrams.