Software engineering is not about writing code anymore. It is about building the factory that builds your software.

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Software engineering is undergoing a fundamental shift as autonomous coding agents move from autocomplete to fully autonomous workers capable of running for hours. The 'factory model' reframes the developer's role: instead of writing code, engineers now build and orchestrate systems that write code. Three generations of AI tools are outlined, culminating in agents that handle entire tasks end-to-end. Key implications include: specification quality becoming the primary leverage point, TDD becoming near-mandatory to prevent agents from gaming tests, and verification (not generation) being the unsolved bottleneck. The skills that matter most are shifting up the stack toward systems thinking, architectural judgment, problem decomposition, and output evaluation—the same pattern seen in every previous abstraction jump in software history.

The Factory Model: How Coding Agents Changed Software Engineering

The unsolved problem is veritication, not generation.

The new shape of high-leverage engineering

This is a long read but totally worth. For anyone who’s still on the fence or mostly steering their agents this is a must read

Awesome article! 🔥
psst <a href="https://app.daily.dev/addyosmani" data-mention-id="1BVvRBwgy" data-mention-username="addyosmani" translate="no">@addyosmani</a> small typo: **veritication **
I thought I was about to have to learn a new word.