Software Engineering Is Becoming Factory Engineering — Zach Lloyd, Warp

Channel: AI Engineer

Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp and a former principal engineer who led engineering on Google Docs, is still shipping all the time, but hasn’t written a line of code in six months. His thesis: software engineering is turning into factory engineering. Every serious project will run a software factory, the same way every project now has CI/CD. Lloyd explains why Warp open-sourced after five years closed (60,000+ GitHub stars and over 800,000 active developers). When software gets cheap to build and clone, a great product isn’t enough. Building in the open builds an ecosystem, and automation now handles the usual pain of noisy issues and sloppy PRs. He tours the factory floor: inputs, triage, product and tech specs, implementation, review, verification and monitoring, plus the architectur

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