Software used to be something you sat down and wrote. Line by line, decision by decision, the work lived in the hands of the person at the keyboard. That world doesn't really exist anymore. Everything is changing. Who does the work?

How fast it moves? What counts as writing? What still needs a human in the loop? Instincts and best practices are built on ideas that are getting invalidated faster than ever. So I guess we have to go back and figure out what it is we're actually doing here.

Welcome to YAGNI season three, The Software Factory.