A gap has long existed between the shipping velocity of the best engineering teams and the rest of the bell curve. For most of the industry’s history, it was a multiple measured in deploys per week. Agents are turning that multiple into an exponent, and the dividing line is no longer tooling or talent. It is whether a team has rebuilt its delivery system into what the industry now calls a “software factory,” a largely autonomous system where intent goes in, agents plan, write, test, and ship the changes. People own the specifications and the gates. Anthropic put a number on the gap this...

Source: The New Stack