Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

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 th…