Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

The article argues that LLMs have made code creation faster and more accessible, forcing companies to rethink software development as a production system rather than a set of isolated tools. A real software factory needs structured workflows for generation, review, testing, deployment, tracing, and failure recovery, not just more agents and prompts.

The key shift is from developer productivity to system-level engineering, where governance, quality control, and feedback loops matter as much as code output. Companies that focus only on speed risk scaling technical debt and defects, while those that industrialize software delivery could gain a durable operational advantage.