--- title: The Software Industrial Revolution Just like the first... description: A sweeping opinion piece arguing that AI coding agents have reached an inflection point in late 2025, triggering a 'Software Industrial Revolution' analogous... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-software-industrial-revolution-just-like-the-first-industrial-revolution-this-will-change-the--vus0jpzdj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Software Industrial Revolution Just like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways. | daily.dev og:description: A sweeping opinion piece arguing that AI coding agents have reached an inflection point in late 2025, triggering a 'Software Industrial Revolution' analogous... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-software-industrial-revolution-just-like-the-first-industrial-revolution-this-will-change-the--vus0jpzdj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vus0JPZdJ.png og:image:alt: The Software Industrial Revolution Just like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Software Industrial Revolution Just like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways. **[Anja P](https://daily.dev/sources/wvjsfjtde63pxqfasmxfo)** · [@anjapcodes](https://daily.dev/anjapcodes) · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A sweeping opinion piece arguing that AI coding agents have reached an inflection point in late 2025, triggering a 'Software Industrial Revolution' analogous to the 18th-century Industrial Revolution. The author draws parallels between the mechanization of textile production and the automation of software development, arguing that dramatically lower software production costs will: end the VC-driven monopoly era, democratize software creation for non-engineers (doctors, researchers, small businesses), and paradoxically increase demand for skilled software engineers who can operate at greater scale and ambition. The piece uses Epic's healthcare IT dominance as a case study of how high software costs entrench monopolies, and predicts that software abundance will disrupt every industry from healthcare to agriculture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@calebstclair** · 0 upvotes > This article reads like a MBA wet dream. No facts, just quoting AI boosters and taking it as gospel while addressing none of the problems that AI has with writing code ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The rise of industrial software](https://daily.dev/posts/the-rise-of-industrial-software-kngtqfboj) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Some thoughts on AI and coding](https://daily.dev/posts/some-thoughts-on-ai-and-coding-xozje7i6y) · InfoWorld · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [238. Death of Software. Nah.](https://daily.dev/posts/238-death-of-software-nah--cews1ctoq) · Programming Digest · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#venture-capital](https://daily.dev/tags/venture-capital), [#future-of-work](https://daily.dev/tags/future-of-work) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-software-industrial-revolution-just-like-the-first-industrial-revolution-this-will-change-the--vus0jpzdj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-software-industrial-revolution-just-like-the-first-industrial-revolution-this-will-change-the--vus0jpzdj","headline":"The Software Industrial Revolution\n\nJust like the first Industrial Revolution, this will change the world in profound and unexpected ways.","text":"Shared: No title","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-software-industrial-revolution-just-like-the-first-industrial-revolution-this-will-change-the--vus0jpzdj","datePublished":"2026-02-22T13:40:07.628Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:46:18.438Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Anja P","url":"https://daily.dev/anjapcodes","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--M_c0s8Ky--/f_auto/v1721658650/avatars/avatar_WVJSfJtDe63PxQFAsmXFO","description":"< Self-taught front-end developer + coding bootcamp grad, tech enthusiast + design lover + poet />","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":51660}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--0_ODbtD2--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2008","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/fKOrp88wL"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"This article reads like a MBA wet dream. 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