ForgeLink: Hardware‑Software Talent Bridge

I have mixed feelings about software factories!On one hand, our core product is just simply not fit for them at its scale. We've tried but the project is large enough to require human input for every change. But we have AI automations for light code refactoring, writing tests, UI changes etc. and they work.On the other hand, I started a number of small experiments to see how far software factories can be pushed and while the code produced so far is nothing spectacular I could easily imagine how this can be extended in the near future. Perhaps if you start from the ground up with the idea that

Production of software is nearly 100% R&D. Making a million copies of a software product has a trivial cost. There are no assembly line workers in software (and the very word "assembly" means a different thing). A software engineer very often brings in revenue many times their salary.Production of hardware is some R&D, and then actual manufacturing. Production of each physical item costs you. Production of every physical item has a chance to go wrong. Production of each physical item requires a number of humans (often a large number) to do repetitive, high-precision, high-skill work, a