If your Software Factory is just an engineering project, you are not thinking big enough.
We're rebuilding the substrate whole companies use to coordinate.
I do prefer "Product Factory" though. The end result is better products, faster.
Here at Galadriel, we are building a different kind of AI.
Instead of a Dark Lord, it will be a queen. Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love it and despair!
I came across the term "meat proxy" today: It's a person who takes questions from humans, proxies it to claude, and then proxies the response back to humans.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult This is my favorite historical metaphor for when practices are copied without being understood. Never blindly mimic and assume an outcome follows.
Development now belongs in CI. The real things we focus on include specifications, tradeoffs, and ensuring the needs of the business are met. The tools just need to catch up to this.