Software Factories, Light and Dark (via @addyosmani)

kept by eddie jul 22

A software factory is a harnessed loop at scale that can be run with humans trading judgment for speed, or fully automated without them.

AddyOsmani.com - The Intent Debt
Intent debt—the missing externalized rationale for why a system is built—is the most expensive kind of debt because AI agents cannot generate it, and its cost compounds as teams rely on more agents.
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The 80% Problem in Agentic Coding - by Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani argues that while AI agents now write 80% of code for early adopters, this shifts problems to "comprehension debt," where developers understand less of their own codebases.
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