The 'software factory' debate: delivery is trivial now, the bottleneck is clarity on what to build
brandon_galang · x · 2026-10-13
hunvreus doubles down on calling bullshit on the 'software factory' crowd: he hasn't hand-written code since March, uses Codex, Claude, and Grok Bot all day (at home, in the cab, at the gym), and ships to tens of thousands of real users — yet never runs 20 parallel agents for 8 hours. Everyone trying to prove him wrong shows a generic factory or social scheduler with no users and a 'coming soon' landing page. Deciding what to say no to and sweating the details still takes real work.
brandongalang largely agrees: a 'software factory' that automatically builds stuff differs from an optimized discovery-and-delivery process. Delivery is trivial now; an idle factory even biases you toward shipping slop. The bottleneck is clarity on your system's current and future needs.
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