Link: Everyone Is Building a Software Factory
Philip Zeyliger:
We are all grappling with what it means to be an organization with agentic tools. We are seeing a Cambrian explosion of workflows in how to produce software. It is unwise, right now, to declare The Solution and enforce it. Developer Productivity teams that are pushing a workflow on their users are being counterproductive. Instead, the moment calls for experimentation and for giving people the agency to experiment, to learn, to iterate.
I agree. Boy, do I agree. My setup and workflow are constantly changing—maybe every month or so. But I see so many people stuck in a local minimum, just using Claude Code the way they were using it back in December last year.
I’m not saying everyone should be constantly tweaking setup/workflow; that’s definitely not for everyone. But not experimenting at all is perplexing to me.