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What Is a Software Factory?
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What Is a Software Factory?

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An article by Chamath Palihapitiya exploring the concept of a 'software factory' — a modern approach to building software at scale. It draws from real-world experience at 8090, where the team reverse-engineered and replaced an 18-million-line COBOL/Assembly billing engine. It examines how AI-powered development workflows can modernize legacy systems at enterprise scale.

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If you're building or evaluating AI-assisted development pipelines, this piece gives you the historical and conceptual vocabulary to distinguish real industrial-grade systems from the current wave of hype — and explains why 'guaranteed output' is the standard enterprises are actually trying to reach. The COBOL reverse-engineering case study makes the abstraction concrete.

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software factorylegacy modernizationcobolenterprise softwareai coding8090vibe codingchamath

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