How Software Factories are changing Software Engineering | Tushar Mathur (CEO, ForgeCode)

Tushar Mathur is the founder and CEO of ForgeCode, an Agentic Coding Harness. Tushar has been early to the agentic coding scene and sees a great potential for software factories to augment the software engineering process through automation. In this episode of AI for SWE Podcast, Tushar and I discuss how SWE is changing with AI, what is holding companies back from adopting Agentic AI and how software factories can supercharge software development. __ In this video, we will cover: (00:00) Introduction to Tushar and ForgeCode (00:38) Tushar's Journey (04:13) Software Factory (08:35) Realization of AI's potential (12:57) Evolution of SDE Role (17:28) Commoditization of Software (18:35) Software Factories and SDE Role (30:07) Agents and Coding (32:19) Failure Case of LLMs (33:29) Evolution of SWE (37:31) Evaluating SDEs (38:46) Advice for new graduates (46:47) Evolution of PM Role (50:43) How Companies can start with Agentic AI Adoption (54:59) What is holding companies back? (58:27) Importance of Understanding Code (01:02:51) Managing Token Costs (01:05:02) Conclusion __ ForgeCode: https://forgecode.dev/ Where to find Tushar Mathur: • X: https://x.com/tusharmath • LinkedIn:   / tusharmath   __ Where to find Abhiroop Bhatnagar: • X: https://x.com/ai_for_swe • LinkedIn:   / abhiroopbhatnagar