Zach Lloyd on the 'software factory': engineering is becoming factory engineering
vikvang1 · x · 2026-10-17
Windsurf founder Zach Lloyd released a recorded version of his AI Engineer NYC talk on what a "software factory" really is.
Core thesis: software engineering is becoming factory engineering — engineers will increasingly design, run, and optimize AI-driven code production lines rather than write every line themselves. He flags a new skill area worth investing in: "factory benchmarking," i.e., measuring the output quality and throughput of the whole agent pipeline rather than scoring single models or one-off tasks.
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