AI-powered coding tools are driving an industrial revolution in software development, transforming it from craft to mass production. This shift enables "disposable software" created at scale with minimal human expertise, similar to how industrialization in other fields produced ultraprocessed foods and fast fashion. While traditional, human-crafted software will persist in specialized niches, the acceleration of both commoditization and innovation creates a faster cycle of progress. The critical challenge ahead is not production capacity but stewardship: managing technical debt, dependencies, and maintenance of software that no one owns as output scales exponentially.
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