lol. Revenue for model makers is going parabolic. If the claim below is accurate, a large share of that revenue may not be sustainable

A small dedicated team focused on building and continually improving an internal software factory leads to a noticeable increase in product velocity.

This approach helps involve the whole team — PMs, designers, sales, marketers, executives — in the product development process.

One example: a customer reported a problem; the software factory was invoked via the feedback channel, it created a PR and built a fix, and about 15 minutes later the issue was resolved.

A software factory is a set of background coding agents running in the cloud. Anyone at the company, engineering or otherwise, can invoke it from a phone or laptop. Different agents spec out the feature,

BUILD YOUR OWN SOFTWARE FACTORY The best companies in the world are building their own software factories, combining first‑party and third‑party tools.

A Software Factory has been under development — v1 didn’t hit the mark, but v2 over the past year has been working really well. There’s been strong customer success and the product keeps improving every

Unless focus shifts from "generation speed" to "architectural sanity," the next five years will be buried in unmanageable technical debt

Code generation is being treated as a pure productivity win while optimizing the wrong metric. The bottleneck has never been typing speed; it's comprehension, architecture, and maintenance

Reality check: code is a liability, not an asset If an AI spits out 1,000 lines of boilerplate in five seconds, that's still 1,000 lines someone has to read, review, secure, and maintain when dependencies

Unpopular opinion: AI isn't building the future 10x faster — it's producing legacy code 10x faster Many are bragging about developer velocity: "Built an entire backend in a weekend!" "AI

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It will launch as an updated Planner module within Software Factory on Tuesday. It’s beautiful, clean and super useful.

Software Factory then handled the heavy lifting, filling in gaps and enabling senior engineers to refine the technical direction. In 2.5 weeks, 2.5 junior developers built the replacement.

First, 3.5 weeks were spent planning — Software Factory’s superpower. That phase let the lead PM, designer and architect precisely describe and detail what was needed.

A high-performing team used Software Factory to rebuild and replace Jira in just over a month.

Governor Gavin Newsom could have stopped this early but did not, reinforcing perceptions of ineffectiveness and outside influence. He now appears to be pursuing similar national ambitions. Buyer beware

With about 10 million middle-class California households, that amounts to roughly $2,500 per household—not paid by billionaires but by middle-class families.

Now the state’s most reliable tax base is at risk: 71% of 100,000 modeled scenarios show a negative NPV, creating roughly a $24.7B shortfall that someone will have to cover.

The proposal originated with SEIU-UHW as a fix for healthcare funding that should have been addressed by state politicians cutting waste, fraud and abuse in the budget. That did not happen.