The rise of industrial software
created: Dec. 31, 2025, 9:09 a.m. | updated: Jan. 1, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Examples from other fields include:industrialisation of printing processes led to paperback genre fictionindustrialisation of agriculture led to ultraprocessed junk foodindustrialisation of digital image sensors led to user-generated videoIn the case of software, the industrialisation of production is giving rise to a new class of software artefact, which we might term disposable software: software created with no durable expectation of ownership, maintenance, or long-term understanding.
Will the same effect ripple through software development itself, with lower cost of effort driving higher consumption and output?
The adoption curve we’ve seen so far may pale beside what happens when disposable software production becomes truly mainstream.
We are entering an industrial revolution for software, then, not as a moment of rupture, but one of huge acceleration.
The open question, then, is not whether industrial software will dominate, but what that dominance does to the surrounding ecosystem.
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