# Lauren Tan says software factories are marketing and good engineering is enough

> Original title: hot take: you don't need a software factory, and i don't love the term. it's just marketing

- Source: Lauren Tan
- Published: 2026-11-06T07:54:47.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/r4nthm29tn6kaovnrvh1b5saf
- Original: https://x.com/poteto/status/2118613050462728659

## Summary

Lauren Tan (@poteto) says companies need no software factory, calling the term marketing. She argues that good software engineering and spending tokens in deterministic, token-efficient ways is all that matters.

## Post

hot take: you don't need a software factory, and i don't love the term. it's just marketing

all you need is good software engineering and investing your tokens in the right places. the more deterministic the better (and token efficient)

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## Quoted post @thdxr

> all the companies selling you a software factory produce a shockingly tiny amount of software

https://x.com/thdxr/status/2118604739428426223