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The rise of industrial software | Chris Loy

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Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp. mechanical industry or large-scale manufacturing; ( also) resulting from such industry. —Oxford English Dictionary For most of its history, software has been closer to craft than manufacture: costly, slow, and dominated by the need for skills and experience. AI coding is changing that, by making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans. I have written previously about how AI coding can be a trap for today’s practitioners, offering shortcuts to incomplete solutions at the expense of the understanding needed for sustainable development practices. But as we collectively address the shortcomings of our current toolset, it is clear that we are heading into a world in which the production of software is becoming increasingly automated. What happens to software when its production undergoes an industrial revolution? Traditionally, software has been expensiv

Industrial adj. (sense 3a) Of or relating to productive work, trade, or manufacture, esp. mechanical industry or large-scale manufacturing; ( also) resulting from such industry. — Oxford English Dictionary For most of its history, software has been closer to craft than manufacture: costly, slow, and dominated by the need for skills and experience. AI coding is changing that, by making available paths of production which are cheaper, faster, and increasingly disconnected from the expertise of humans. I have written previously about how AI coding can be a trap for today’s practitioners, offering

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