THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF IT

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Today, a junior engineer still outperforms AI coding models - but the math is getting uncomfortable. For roughly the same $250,000 annual cost, you could run Gemini 2.5 Pro continuously for a year and generate two million coding responses. The real threat isn't smarter AI - it's the industrialization of software development. Future companies won't build single brilliant AI engineers, they'll create coding factories where thousands of agents work in parallel on compartmentalized codebases designed for machine scale. This isn't about craft versus automation - it's steam engines versus John Henry. Like all previous forms of mechanization, the machines won't win because they're more talented, but because they never stop.