Anyone Can Make Software Now. But When Does A Side Project Become Production Ready? (opens in new tab)

Author's note: In the spirit of fairly critiquing AI and practicing a suggestion I end the article with, this article and the accompanying illustration were created entirely without AI assistance. Agentic coding AI is here, and it’s transforming the software industry. But with agentic coding out now for over a year, has it felt like the software industry has really transformed? From my from vantage point, although there are some really cool projects that have been built only because of new ag...