Kent C. Dodds on AI Engineers: 'software factories existed 10 years ago — human workers'
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-11-16
On the ThursdAI podcast (recorded live at AI Engineer, also covering Jensen's rumored exit, the Anthropic IPO, Fable 5.2 and more), Kent C. Dodds offered a take on the 'AI Engineer' buzzword:
> Ten years ago we had software factories. The workers on the factory floor were just humans.
Now we manage the factory and agents work the floor — framing AI coding tools as a continuation of software's industrialization rather than something brand new.
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