The Agentic Software Factory Is the Wrong Metaphor
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Rob West argues in this essay that calling agentic coding systems a "software factory" is the wrong metaphor. Drawing on Jack Reeves, Martin Fowler and Dave Farley, he holds that source code is the design and compilation is the cheap build step, so agents generating code are doing design work.…